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    • Data Available
    • Henry Reiswig's Sponge Descriptions
    • Protocols
  • About Sponges
    • Freshwater Sponges
    • Glass Sponge Ecology
    • Glass sponge cell biology
  • Outreach
    • Sponge FAQ
    • Paper Synopses
    • Lab in the News
    • Photo Gallery
    • Blog >
      • 2017 Hecate Strait Blog
      • 2015 Hecate Strait Blog >
        • Highlights of our results
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  • Video Gallery
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FRESHWATER SPONGES
In the water you  drink
Sponges are in water - everywhere - and are without doubt simply the best indicators of the health of that water...for you.

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Almost surely, freshwater sponges live where you live, in the water you drink. The sponges we sequenced for the E. muelleri genome came from the head tank of the Victoria British Columbia drinking water system. This water is pristine, carefully protected from humans by a boundary around a reservoir far from human habitation. It's clean. Sponges filter water for bacteria and small unicellular plankton and they grow and excrete wastes as tiny particles. 

We have compiled some resources for people:
  • Literature: click to download references list for literature on freshwater sponges
  • Photos of living freshwater sponges through the seasons
  • Scanning electron micrographs of freshwater sponges
  • Videos of freshwater sponges sneezing
  • links to i-Naturalist for locations to report Freshwater sponges
  • protocols for working on freshwater sponges​​
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