When I teach my #invertebrate #zoology course, we talk only very briefly about #glass #sponges, despite the fact that they're super cool.

In this new paper the authors describe some incredible glass sponge #biodiversity off the coast of #New #Zealand. They used standard methods (morphology, genetics). But they also used #phylometabolomics – that is, they successfully classified specimens based on metabolites in their tissues. That's new to me!

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🔗 https://peerj.com/articles/15017/