#microanatomy — Public Fediverse posts
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#Sponges react to changes in their #microbiome with extensive modifications in #GeneRegulation
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-sponges-react-microbiome-extensive-modifications.html#BodyPlan Reorganization in a #Sponge Correlates with Microbiome Change https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msad138/7191912
"The sponges respond to the loss of #cyanobacteria—eg. due to shading—with significant changes to their #morphology: Here, initially blue sponges with leaf-like growth forms transformed into white, thread-like #morphotypes with a markedly different #microanatomy."