Sentences with phrase «fungi as sponges»

Think of these helpful fungi as sponges, soaking up toxins, much as other types of fungi thrive on decaying material.

Not exact matches

Tropical storms make their mark, but even more damage is caused by other organisms such as parrotfish, sponges and fungi.

Evolutionary microbiologist Mitchell Sogin has found genetic and cellular parallels among fungi, sponges, and man, and then has unequivocally claimed the sponge as our ancestor.

Functional perilipins (PLIN proteins encoded by the PLIN genes)(Lu et al., 2001) have been identified in very diverse organisms such as Drosophila (Teixeira et al., 2003), Dictyostelium (Du et al., 2013) and fungi (Wang & St Leger, 2007) and protein databases list clear orthologues in diverse, non-plant eukaryota, including the simplest metazoan Trichoplax adherens, sponges, crustaceans, and choanoflagelates (UniProt proteins B3RRM2, I1GA14, G5DCP6, F2UJD9, respectively).