Marine Biotechnology

, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp 40–51 | Cite as

Hypothesized Kinetic Models for Describing the Growth of Globular and Encrusting Demosponges

  • Detmer Sipkema
  • Nejla A.M. Yosef
  • Marcin Adamczewski
  • Ronald Osinga
  • Dominick Mendola
  • Johannes Tramper
  • René H. Wijffels
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Abstract

The marine sponges Dysidea avara and Chondrosia reniformis (globular forms) were cultured in the laboratory on a diet of viable Phaeodactylum tricornutum cells and dissolved nutrients (algae and fish powders). Our growth data were combined with literature data for Pseudosuberites andrewsi (a globular sponge) and for the encrusting sponges Oscarella lobularis, Hemimycale columella, and Crambe crambe. The suitability of three growth models—linear, exponential, and radial accretive—for describing the growth of globular and encrusting sponges was assessed. Radial accretive growth was determined to be the best model to describe growth of both encrusting and globular sponges. Average growth rates of 0.051 ± 0.016 and 0.019 ± 0.003 mm/day (calculated as the increase of the radius of the sponge per day) were obtained experimentally for D. avara and C. reniformis, respectively.

Keywords

Growth kinetics morphology sponge 
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Notes

Acknowledgments

We thank Iosune Uriz and Sònia de Caralt from CEAB-CSIC in Blanes (Spain) for their cheerful help with collecting some C. reniformis specimens. We thank Jaap Kaandorp from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for a helpful discussion. This work was supported by the European Commission (project no. QLRT-1999-00672: Technology for the Production of Health Related Substances by Marine Sponges).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Detmer Sipkema
    • 1
  • Nejla A.M. Yosef
    • 1
  • Marcin Adamczewski
    • 1
  • Ronald Osinga
    • 1
  • Dominick Mendola
    • 2
  • Johannes Tramper
    • 1
  • René H. Wijffels
    • 1
  1. 1.Food and Bioprocess Engineering GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
  2. 2.CalBioMarine TechnologiesLeucadiaUSA

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