Michael Nickel

Summary

Affiliation: Friedrich Schiller University
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges: actin knockdown in Tethya wilhelma and Ephydatia muelleri by ingested dsRNA expressing bacteria
    Ajna S Rivera
    Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
    BMC Biotechnol 11:67. 2011
  2. ncbi Sponge budding is a spatiotemporal morphological patterning process: Insights from synchrotron radiation-based x-ray microtomography into the asexual reproduction of Tethya wilhelma
    Jörg U Hammel
    Institut fur Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, Erbertstr, 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
    Front Zool 6:19. 2009
  3. ncbi The contractile sponge epithelium sensu lato--body contraction of the demosponge Tethya wilhelma is mediated by the pinacoderm
    Michael Nickel
    Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, Erbertstrasse 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
    J Exp Biol 214:1692-8. 2011

Collaborators

  • Jörg U Hammel
  • Ajna S Rivera
  • Dora Posfai
  • Elizabeth S Danka
  • Karri M Haen
  • Dennis V Lavrov
  • Scott W Knight
  • Gert Worheide
  • Malcolm S Hill
  • Brandon Cieniewicz
  • April L Hill
  • Ian P Winters
  • Julia Herzen
  • Felix Beckmann

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges: actin knockdown in Tethya wilhelma and Ephydatia muelleri by ingested dsRNA expressing bacteria
    Ajna S Rivera
    Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
    BMC Biotechnol 11:67. 2011
    ..Thus far, functional methods (i.e., loss or gain of function) for these organisms have not been available...
  2. ncbi Sponge budding is a spatiotemporal morphological patterning process: Insights from synchrotron radiation-based x-ray microtomography into the asexual reproduction of Tethya wilhelma
    Jörg U Hammel
    Institut fur Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, Erbertstr, 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
    Front Zool 6:19. 2009
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  3. ncbi The contractile sponge epithelium sensu lato--body contraction of the demosponge Tethya wilhelma is mediated by the pinacoderm
    Michael Nickel
    Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, Erbertstrasse 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
    J Exp Biol 214:1692-8. 2011
    ..We conclude that epithelial contraction plays a major role in sponges. Contractile epithelia sensu lato may be regarded as part of the ground pattern of the Metazoa...