NOUN
- any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body
How To Use choanocyte In A Sentence
- Lapebie P, Renard E, Bezac C, Boury-Esnault N, et al. (2008) NK homeobox genes with choanocyte-specific expression in homoscleromorph sponges. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- The velocity of the excurrent stream through the osculum may be several hundred times that at the level of the choanocytes.
- In sexual reproduction, spermatocytes develop from the transformation of choanocytes, and oocytes arise from archeocytes.
- Water movement is driven by the beating of flagellae, which are located on specialized cells called choanocytes (collar cells).
- Particles are caught in the collar part of the choanocyte cells.
- Sponge cells called choanocytes each project a minuscule filament.
- The anterior cells lost their cilia and migrated in to form the inner cell mass; some of these cells rapidly differentiated into choanocytes, while others remained amoeboid.
- Within our current understanding of sponge structure, few authors would homologize the choanocyte epithelium of sponges with the lining of the gut in other animals.
- Amazingly, half of the sponge's choanocyte (filtration) cells had divided and the choanocyte's cell division cycle was a phenomenally short 5.4 hours. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- Due to the physical structure of the choanocyte chambers and oscular chimneys, water can passively flow through the sponge without the choanocytes actively pumping.
