Sally Leys
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Sally Leys's Degrees
- PhD Evolutionary Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Physiology University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Biology University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sally Leys is a Canadian spongiologist. She is a professor of biology at the University of Alberta where she and her colleagues study sponges in all their aspects including ecology, physiology, their adaptations to a fluid environment and the evolution of sensory systems using sponges as their model organism. A current project is Evaluating ecosystem function, vulnerability, resilience, and ability to recover from multiple stressors.
Sally Leys's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity (2010) (957)
- Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships (2009) (666)
- The analysis of eight transcriptomes from all poriferan classes reveals surprising genetic complexity in sponges. (2014) (214)
- Developmental expression of transcription factor genes in a demosponge: insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity (2006) (180)
- Cytological Basis of Photoresponsive Behavior in a Sponge Larva (2001) (176)
- Sponge Grounds as Key Marine Habitats: A Synthetic Review of Types, Structure, Functional Roles, and Conservation Concerns (2016) (171)
- The hidden biology of sponges and ctenophores. (2015) (160)
- The biology of glass sponges. (2007) (156)
- Hexactinellid sponge ecology: growth rates and seasonality in deep water sponges (1998) (134)
- In situ feeding and metabolism of glass sponges (Hexactinellida, Porifera) studied in a deep temperate fjord with a remotely operated submersible (2007) (133)
- Impulse conduction in a sponge. (1999) (132)
- The Sponge Pump: The Role of Current Induced Flow in the Design of the Sponge Body Plan (2011) (129)
- Embryogenesis and metamorphosis in a haplosclerid demosponge: gastrulation and transdifferentiation of larval ciliated cells to choanocytes (2005) (118)
- Coordinated contractions effectively expel water from the aquiferous system of a freshwater sponge (2007) (112)
- Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges (2014) (99)
- Elements of a ‘nervous system’ in sponges (2015) (99)
- Benthic grazing and carbon sequestration by deep‐water glass sponge reefs (2015) (97)
- Patterns of glass sponge (Porifera, Hexactinellida) distribution in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada (2004) (96)
- Embryogenesis and larval differentiation in sponges (2006) (93)
- Ecological regulation of development: induction of marine invertebrate metamorphosis. (2002) (88)
- Electrical recording from a glass sponge (1997) (88)
- Spectral sensitivity in a sponge larva (2002) (84)
- The physiology and molecular biology of sponge tissues. (2012) (84)
- Glass sponges arrest pumping in response to sediment: implications for the physiology of the hexactinellid conduction system (2008) (84)
- Epithelia and integration in sponges. (2009) (82)
- Physiology of coordination in sponges (2006) (80)
- Evidence for glutamate, GABA and NO in coordinating behaviour in the sponge, Ephydatia muelleri (Demospongiae, Spongillidae) (2010) (79)
- Feeding in a Calcareous Sponge: Particle Uptake by Pseudopodia (2006) (72)
- The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (2020) (72)
- Choanoflagellate and choanocyte collar‐flagellar systems and the assumption of homology (2014) (71)
- Epithelia, an evolutionary novelty of metazoans. (2012) (71)
- Size independent selective filtration of ultraplankton by hexactinellid glass sponges (2006) (67)
- Wnt signaling and induction in the sponge aquiferous system: evidence for an ancient origin of the organizer (2010) (62)
- Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential (2010) (62)
- Glass sponge reefs as a silicon sink (2011) (59)
- Gastrulation in Calcareous Sponges: In Search of Haeckel's Gastraea1 (2005) (57)
- Optimization of preservation and storage time of sponge tissues to obtain quality mRNA for next‐generation sequencing (2012) (56)
- High resolution mapping of community structure in three glass sponge reefs (Porifera, Hexactinellida) (2010) (55)
- Phagocytosis of microbial symbionts balances the carbon and nitrogen budget for the deep‐water boreal sponge Geodia barretti (2018) (54)
- Sponge Development and Antiquity of Animal Pattern Formation1 (2005) (53)
- Reproduction in a carnivorous sponge: the significance of the absence of an aquiferous system to the sponge body plan (2007) (51)
- The mitochondrial genome of the hexactinellid sponge Aphrocallistes vastus: Evidence for programmed translational frameshifting (2008) (50)
- Isolation and cloning of a C-type lectin from the hexactinellid sponge Aphrocallistes vastus: a putative aggregation factor. (2001) (50)
- Cytoskeletal Architecture and Organelle Transport in Giant Syncytia Formed by Fusion of Hexactinellid Sponge Tissues. (1995) (46)
- Embryogenesis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta: Formation of syncytia by fusion of blastomeres. (2006) (44)
- Ultrastructure and embryonic development of a syconoid calcareous sponge (2006) (44)
- Comparative study of spiculogenesis in demosponge and hexactinellid larvae (2003) (41)
- The energetic cost of filtration by demosponges and their behavioural response to ambient currents (2017) (39)
- The Significance of Syncytial Tissues for the Position of the Hexactinellida in the Metazoa1 (2003) (37)
- The Choanosome of Hexactinellid Sponges (1999) (37)
- Cloning of Hsp70 genes from the marine sponges Sycon raphanus (Calcarea) and Rhabdocalyptus dawsoni (Hexactinellida). An approach to solve the phylogeny of sponges (1997) (36)
- Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri (2020) (35)
- The Demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica: Reconstructing the Ancestral Metazoan Genome and Deciphering the Origin of Animal Multicellularity. (2008) (34)
- Wnt signaling and polarity in freshwater sponges (2018) (32)
- Of early animals, anaerobic mitochondria, and a modern sponge (2014) (32)
- Isolation of amphimedon developmental material. (2008) (32)
- Expression of a poriferan potassium channel: insights into the evolution of ion channels in metazoans (2009) (29)
- Phototactic responses of larvae from the marine sponges Neopetrosia proxima and Xestospongia bocatorensis (Haplosclerida: Petrosiidae) (2010) (28)
- Oxygen and the Energetic Requirements of the First Multicellular Animals. (2018) (28)
- Think like a sponge: The genetic signal of sensory cells in sponges. (2017) (27)
- Evolution of early Metazoa: phylogenetic status of the Hexactinellida within the phylum of Porifera (sponges). (1998) (26)
- Use of Sandwich Cultures for the Study of Feeding in the Hexactinellid Sponge Rhabdocalyptus dawsoni (Lambe, 1892) (1996) (25)
- Transport Pathways in the Neotropical Sponge Aplysina. (1998) (25)
- Sponge cell aggregation: checkpoints in development indicate a high level of organismal complexity (2015) (24)
- Sponge cell culture: a comparative evaluation of adhesion to a native tissue extract and other culture substrates. (1997) (24)
- Trophic ecology of glass sponge reefs in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia (2018) (24)
- The role of cell replacement in benthic–pelagic coupling by suspension feeders (2016) (23)
- Molecular and functional analysis of the (6-4) photolyase from the hexactinellid Aphrocallistes vastus. (2003) (23)
- Understanding Animal Evolution: The Added Value of Sponge Transcriptomics and Genomics (2018) (21)
- Suspended sediment causes feeding current arrests in situ in the glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus. (2018) (21)
- Pyrosome consumption by benthic organisms during blooms in the northeast Pacific and Gulf of Mexico. (2018) (20)
- Dynamic change, recruitment and resilience in reef-forming glass sponges (2015) (19)
- Expansion, diversification, and expression of T-box family genes in Porifera (2010) (18)
- Effect of suspended sediments on the pumping rates of three species of glass sponge in situ (2019) (17)
- Sponge behaviour and the chemical basis of responses: a post-genomic view. (2019) (16)
- Clones or clans: the genetic structure of a deep‐sea sponge, Aphrocallistes vastus, in unique sponge reefs of British Columbia, Canada (2017) (13)
- A problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China (2019) (10)
- The dorid nudibranchs Peltodoris lentiginosa and Archidoris odhneri as predators of glass sponges (2012) (10)
- A unique alkaline pH-regulated and fatty acid-activated tandem pore domain potassium channel (K2P) from a marine sponge (2012) (9)
- Effects of Sediment on Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) and projected effects on Glass Sponge Reefs (2013) (9)
- Correction: The energetic cost of filtration by demosponges and their behavioural response to ambient currents (2017) (9)
- An Integrative Model of Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism in a Common Deep-Sea Sponge (Geodia barretti) (2021) (8)
- Three-dimensional fate mapping of larval tissues through metamorphosis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta (2016) (8)
- Hydrodynamics of sponge pumps and evolution of the sponge body plan (2020) (7)
- Sponges sneeze mucus to shed particulate waste from their seawater inlet pores (2022) (7)
- Two-year optical site characterization for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) in the Cascadia Basin (2021) (7)
- Cytoskeletal architecture, organelle transport, and impulse conduction in hexactinellid sponge syncytia (1996) (6)
- Behaviors of sessile benthic animals in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean (2020) (6)
- Foundation Species Abundance Influences Food Web Topology on Glass Sponge Reefs (2020) (5)
- Sponge coordination, tissues, and the evolution of gastrulation (2007) (5)
- Settlement of juvenile glass sponges and other invertebrate cryptofauna on the Hecate Strait glass sponge reefs (2019) (4)
- Field Guide to Sponges of the Eastern Canadian Arctic (2018) (4)
- Which way up? Phototaxis and polarity in a sponge. (1999) (4)
- The genomic basis of animal origins: a chromosomal perspective from the sponge Ephydatia muelleri (2020) (4)
- Optical analysis of the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) site using data from the first pathfinder mooring (2021) (4)
- Machine Learning Applications of Convolutional Neural Networks and Unet Architecture to Predict and Classify Demosponge Behavior (2021) (4)
- Sponge (Porifera) fauna of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Canada with the description of an Iophon rich sponge garden. (2019) (4)
- SNP discovery in a reef-forming glass sponge, Aphrocallistes vastus, using the Ion Torrent next generation sequencing platform (2014) (4)
- P-ONE second pathfinder mission: STRAW-b (2021) (4)
- Models of flow through sponges must consider the sponge tissue (2022) (3)
- Propagated electrical impulses in a sponge (1999) (3)
- The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record (2022) (3)
- Ephydatia muelleri Trinity transcriptome (2017) (2)
- Microscopy Studies of Placozoans. (2021) (2)
- Eunapius fragilis Trinity transcriptome (2017) (2)
- Developmental genes in sponges and the antiquity of animal development (2003) (2)
- Geographic range extensions of stalked, flabelliform sponges (Porifera) from eastern Canada with a new combination of a species of Plicatellopsis in the North Atlantic. (2020) (2)
- Sponges (2005) (2)
- A problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China—A reply (2019) (2)
- Origin and Evolution of Metazoan Cell Types (2021) (1)
- Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE): prototype line development (2021) (1)
- Spicule and flagellated chamber formation in a growth zone of Aphrocallistes vastus (Porifera, Hexactinellida) (2017) (1)
- Respiration and Excurrent Velocity DATA for 5 demosponges - Data associated with: Ludeman, Reidenbach and Leys, JEB 2017 The energetic cost of filtration by demosponges and their behavioural response to ambient currents (2017) (1)
- Phylogenetic analyses and fasta files of Porifera Wnts (2017) (1)
- Aphrocallistes vastus Trinity transcriptome (2014) (1)
- Introduction to studies on cell adhesion using invertebrate models (1999) (1)
- Sponge communities in the eastern Canadian Arctic: species richness, diversity and density determined using targeted benthic sampling and underwater video analysis (2020) (1)
- OP-ICBJ190123 751..764 (2019) (0)
- Nexus file of All Wnt genes (2017) (0)
- Summary Introduction IMPULSE CONDUCTION IN A SPONGE (1999) (0)
- The compact genome of the sponge Oopsacas minuta (Hexactinellida) is lacking key metazoan core genes (2022) (0)
- Wnt signaling and polarity in freshwater sponges (2018) (0)
- Nexus file of all Porifera Wnts (2017) (0)
- Sequencing of the Ephydatia muelleri genome: preliminary results (2013) (0)
- SNP discovery in a reef-forming glass sponge, Aphrocallistes vastus, using the Ion Torrent next generation sequencing platform (2013) (0)
- Data for: Behaviors of sessile benthic animals in the abyssal Northeast Pacific Ocean (2020) (0)
- Evolution of the Sensory/Neural Cell Types (2021) (0)
- cOndUctiOn PAtHWAyS And EffEctORS : EPitHELiA (2015) (0)
- Data associated with Grant et al (MEPS) "The Effect of Suspended Sediments on the Pumping Rates of Three Species of Glass Sponge In situ " (2019) (0)
- Trophic ecology of glass sponge reefs in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia (2018) (0)
- Phylogentic Tree for Porifera Wnts using IQTREE (2017) (0)
- Active Use of Ambient Flow by a Deep-Sea Glass Sponge (2021) (0)
- Molecular machineries of ciliogenesis, cell survival, and vasculogenesis are differentially expressed during regeneration in explants of the demosponge Halichondria panicea (2022) (0)
- Spongilla lacustris Trinity transcriptome (2014) (0)
- Cost of filtration DATA for 5 demosponges - Data associated with: Ludeman, Reidenbach and Leys - JEB 2017 The energetic cost of filtration by demosponges and their behavioural response to ambient currents (2017) (0)
- Phylogenetic Tree for Porifera Wnts using RAxML (2017) (0)
- Fasta file of All Wnt genes (2017) (0)
- Fasta file of all Porifera Wnts (2017) (0)
- Animal Evolution: The Hidden Biology of the Ctenophore Cilium (2019) (0)
- Data associated with Grant et al (MER) "Suspended sediment causes feeding current arrests in the glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus" (2018) (0)
- Sycon coactum - transcriptome (2014) (0)
- Physiology of coordination in sponges1 (2006) (0)
- Phylogenetic tree of All Wnt genes in PhyML (2017) (0)
- Introduction IMPULSE CONDUCTION IN A SPONGE (0)
- Geodia barretti - Energy budget data sheet for Limnology and Oceanography (2017) (0)
- Phylogenomics reveals polyphyly of haploscleromorph clades and provides insight into the early evolution of sponges (2013) (0)
- Author Correction: The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (2020) (0)
- Description and distribution of Desmacella hyalina sp. nov. (Porifera, Desmacellidae), a new cryptic demosponge in glass sponge reefs from the western coast of Canada (2020) (0)
- Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges (2014) (0)
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