Building up of Sponge Skeleton (VIDEO)

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Video shows the dynamic spicule-by-spicule building up of a sponge skeleton. This is a Z-projected movie taken from the side of a sponge (Ephydatia fluviatilis) hatching from a gemmule.

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Nakayama et al./<em>Current Biology</em> 2015

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