How To Use Choanocyte In A Sentence
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Lapebie P, Renard E, Bezac C, Boury-Esnault N, et al. (2008) NK homeobox genes with choanocyte-specific expression in homoscleromorph sponges.
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The velocity of the excurrent stream through the osculum may be several hundred times that at the level of the choanocytes.
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In sexual reproduction, spermatocytes develop from the transformation of choanocytes, and oocytes arise from archeocytes.
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Water movement is driven by the beating of flagellae, which are located on specialized cells called choanocytes (collar cells).
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Particles are caught in the collar part of the choanocyte cells.
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Sponge cells called choanocytes each project a minuscule filament.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Due to the physical structure of the choanocyte chambers and oscular chimneys, water can passively flow through the sponge without the choanocytes actively pumping.