31
Dec
Research at Carmabi highlighted in NATURE
Work on sponges on Curacaoan reefs by Jasper de Goeij, a Carmabi associate scientist, has been highlighted in NATURE, one of world's leading scientific journals. Below one finds the text of the article: How the sponge stays slim: One species' rapid cell shedding explains its huge carbon-catching capacity. Published online Nature doi:10.1038/news.2009.1088 By: Matt Kaplan Biologists have discovered how a reef-dwelling species of sponge can filter enormous amounts of carbon without growing in size.The sponge Halisarca caerulea can absorb up to two-thirds of [...]
