Sponge budding is a spatiotemporal morphological patterning process: Insights from synchrotron radiation-based x-ray microtomography into the asexual reproduction of <it>Tethya wilhelma</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Primary agametic-asexual reproduction mechanisms such as budding and fission are present in all non-bilaterian and many bilaterian animal taxa and are likely to be metazoan ground pattern characters. Cnidarians display highly organiz...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-09-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
| Online Access: | http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/6/1/19 |