Suberites
genus of sponges
Suberites is a genus of sea sponges in the family Suberitidae.
Sponges, known scientifically as Porifera, are the oldest metazoans and are used to elucidate the basics of multicellular evolution. These living fossils are ideal for studying the principal features of metazoans, such as extracellular matrix interactions, signal-receptor systems, nervous or sensory systems, and primitive immune systems. Thus, sponges are useful tools with which to study early animal evolution. They appeared approximately 580 million years ago, in the Ediacaran.
Evolutionary significance
Because sponges have historically been thought to form the sister group to all other metazoan lineages, Suberites have been used as model organisms to elucidate features of the earliest animals.
For example, Suberites and their relatives have been studied in an attempt to ascertain how totipotency was replaced by pluripotency in most non-sponge animals. Among other things, studies of Suberites have been interpreted as showing that tyrosine-phosphorylation machinery evolved in animals independently from other eukaryotes. Suberites are also used as models to elucidate the evolution of transmembrane receptors and cell-junction proteins. However, evidence increasingly suggests that ctenophores, not sponges, are the sister group to all other metazoan animals, suggesting that these studies may need to be reinterpreted in light of this new evidence.
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