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University of Hawaii: Unique Dietary Strategy of Invasive Marine Sponge
August 21, 2019
MANOA, Hawaii, Aug. 21 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:

Marine sponges in Kane'ohe Bay have a unique feeding strategy: They acquire important components of their diet from bacteria living within their own bodies.

In research led by doctoral student Joy Leilei Shih in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, a new application of a technique that relies on natur . . .

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