Larval development in the Homoscleromorpha (Porifera, Demospongiae)

By N. Boury-Esnault, A. Ereskovsky, C. Bézac, D. Tokina. 2005

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Embryogenesis and larval differentiation in sponges (2006, background): “…it was recently suggested that the homoscleromorph larva be called a “cinctoblastula”, a term which more accurately describes the distinctive feature of the larva — cells with paracrystalline intranuclear inclusions that form a belt around the posterior pole (Boury-Esnault et al. 1995, 2003).”
Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian palaeobiology (2007, background): “The position of the homoscleromorphs as the sister taxa to Eumetazoa, as well as the presence of basal laminae (Boute et al. 1996; Boury-Esnault et al. 2003), suggests that the Epitheliozoa should include the Homoscleromorpha.”
Phylogenomics revives traditional views on deep animal relationships. (2009, unknown): “Whether the thick basi-epithelial basement membrane of homoscleromorph larvae and adults, which shares homologous biochemical components with eumetazoan basement membranes [29, 30], was inherited from a common metazoan ancestor and subsequently reduced or lost in most sponges and in Trichoplax, or a”