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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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2019-11-14

The Laboratory of Malacology and Lower Animals was created when Bolívar was the director of the MNCN (1901–1939). It can be seen 14 specimens of historical sponges in the cupboard, mostly from Parra collection, that entered in 1789 in the Royal Cabinet.

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2018-01-12

"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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2017-12-08