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Breter HJ, Grebenjuk VA, Skorokhod A, Müller WEG (2003) Approaches for a sustainable use of the bioactive potential in sponges: analysis of gene clusters, differential display of mRNA and DNA chips. In: WEG Müller (ed) Marine Molecular Biotechnology, Vol. 1 Sponges (Porifera). Springer-Press, Berlin; pp 202-230

Bringmann G, Lang G, Mühlbacher J, Schaumann K, Steffens S, Rytik PG, Hentschel U, Morschhäuser J, Brun R, Müller WEG (2003) Sorbicillactone A, a structurally unprecedented bioactive novel-type alkaloid from a sponge-derived fungus. In: WEG Müller (ed) Marine Molecular Biotechnology, Vol. 1 Sponges (Porifera). Springer-Press, Berlin; pp 231-253

Krasko A, Gundacker D, Leys SP, Schröder HC, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2003) Molecular and functional analysis of the (6-4) photolyase from the hexactinellid Aphrocallistes vastus. Biochim Biophys Acta 1651:41-49

Le Pennec G, Perović S, Ammar MSA, Grebenjuk VA, Steffen R, Müller WEG (2003) Cultivation of primmorphs from the marine sponge Suberites domuncula: morphogenetic potential of silicon and iron. J Biotechnol 100:93-108

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Müller WEG, Wiens M, Müller IM, Schröder, HC (2003) The chemokine networks in sponges: potential roles in morphogenesis, immunity and stem cell formation. Progress Molec Subcell Biol 34:103-143

Perović S, Schröder HC, Sudek S, Grebenjuk VA, Batel R, Štifanić M, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2003) Expression of one sponge Iroquois homeobox gene during canal formation in Suberites domuncula. Evo Devo 5:240‑250

Schröder HC, Wiens M, Müller WEG (2003) Aging in sponges. In: HD Osiewacz (ed) Aging of the Organisms. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam; pp 79-98

Schröder HC, Brümmer F, Fattorusso E, Aiello A, de Rosa S, Ammar MSA, Müller WEG (2003) Sustainable production of bioactive compounds from sponges: primmorphs as bioreactors. In: WEG Müller (ed) Marine Molecular Biotechnology, Vol. 1 Sponges (Porifera). Springer-Press, Berlin; pp 163-197

Schröder HC, Efremova SM, Itskovich VB, Belikov S, Masuda Y, Krasko A, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2003) Molecular phylogeny of the freshwater sponges in Lake Baikal. J Zool Syst Evol Research 41:80-86

Schröder HC, Krasko A, Le Pennec G, Adell T, Hassanein H, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2003) Silicase, an enzyme which degrades biogenous amorphous silica: contribution to the metabolism of silica deposition in the demosponge Suberites domuncula. Progr Molec Subcell Biol 33:250-268

Schröder HC, Krasko A, Ushijima H, Gamulin V, Schütze J, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2003) Emergence and disappearance of an immune molecule, an antimicrobial lectin, in basal Metazoa: the tachylectin family. J Biol Chem 278:32810-32817

Thakur NL, Hentschel U, Krasko A, Pabel CT, Anil AC, Müller WEG (2003) Antibacterial activity of the sponge Suberites domuncula and its primmorphs: potential basis for the defense. Aquatic Microbial Ecol 31:77-83

Wiens M, Krasko A, Perović S, Müller WEG (2003) Caspase-mediated apoptosis in sponges: cloning and function of the phylogenetic oldest apoptotic proteases from Metazoa. Biochim Biophys Acta 1593:179-189

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Wiens M, Mangoni A, D'Esposito M, Fattorusso E, Korchagina N, Schröder HC, Grebenjuk VA, Krasko A, Batel R, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2003) The molecular basis for the evolution of the metazoan bodyplan: extracellular matrix-mediated morphogenesis in marine demosponges. J Mol Evol 57:1-16