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Animals at the cell-aggregate body organization

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Evolutionary Mechanisms of Defense Reactions

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Porifera (sponges) are the most primitive metazoans. Approximately 5000 species of sponges are marine sessile animals, only some 150 live in fresh water. Four classes of Porifera are distinguished: the Calcarea (Calcispon-giae), the Hexactinellida (Hyalospongiae), the Demospongiae, and the Sclerospongiae (Bergquist, 1978; Müller et al. 1994b).

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  2. Dept. of Immunology Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petr Šíma Ph. D. (Senior Research Scientist)

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Větvička, V., Šíma, P. (1998). Animals at the cell-aggregate body organization. In: Evolutionary Mechanisms of Defense Reactions. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8835-6_2

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