In the Southern Ocean, that is areas south of the Polar Front, long-term oceanographic cooling,
geographic separation, development of isolating current and wind systems, tectonic drift …

… We are grateful to D. Fütterer, chief scientist on Polarstern cruise ANT XIX/3-4, and E.
Fahrbach, chief scientist on Polarstern cruise ANT XXII/3, and to the captain and crew of RV …

The marine ecosystem on the eastern shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula was surveyed 5 and
12 years after the climate-induced collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves. An …

… We developed hard and transparent glassy spheres (Figure 1(d)) which were stable in water
and in air during several months. TEM investigation of these colloidal suspensions (Figure 2…

Sponges play a key role in Antarctic marine benthic community structure and dynamics and
are often a dominant component of many Southern Ocean benthic communities. …

Reconstructing the phylogeny of sponges (Porifera) is one of the remaining challenges to
resolve the metazoan Tree of Life and is a prerequisite for understanding early animal …

… Star denotes position of the transects magnified in (D). (D) Agassiz trawl and ROV tracks.
2007 ship track is shown as dashed blue line, with the location of the transect in a 50 m …

Morphologic and phylogenetic analysis of freshwater sponges endemic to lakes in Central
Sulawesi, Siberia and South-East Europe is presented. We also analyzed several …

Marine sponges (Phylum Porifera) are globally distributed within marine and freshwater
ecosystems. In addition, sponges host dense and diverse prokaryotic communities, which are …

… Additional measurements were performed with an HP-5 column (30 m, 0.25 mm id, 0.18 μm
d f ). The GC oven on this column was the following: injection at 80 C (hold time, 1 min), then …