For here's a look inside a juvenile sponge! 🧽

The choanocyte cells (and choanocyte chambers) are labelled with a red fluorescent dye, and nuclei are labelled in blue.

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"Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe" (1864) increased the number of sponge species known from the Caribbean by fivefold. Most of those described belong to the Class Demospongiae. Explore the work in via ➡️ https://t.co/xu7Go6Gxd4

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"Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe" (1864) included 25 hand-colored lithographs based on drawings made from living specimens - which was important as sponges change color & shape when removed from water. View the in via https://t.co/0Mt5N6ELVU

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