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SUBMITTER: Rivera AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3146823 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC biotechnology 20110616
<h4>Background</h4>The marine sponge Tethya wilhelma and the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri are emerging model organisms to study evolution, gene regulation, development, and physiology in non-bilaterian animal systems. Thus far, functional methods (i.e., loss or gain of function) for these organisms have not been available.<h4>Results</h4>We show that soaking developing freshwater sponges in double-stranded RNA and/or feeding marine and freshwater sponges bacteria expressing double-strand ...[more]