Calcareous sponge cell atlas provides support to homology between sponge and eumetazoan body plans
Di Pan, Dinithi G. Rajapaksha, Cüneyt Caglar, Rachel Rathjen, Marcin Adamski, Maja Adamska
The paper supports Haeckel's hypothesis of homology between sponge and eumetazoan body plans by comparing single-cell transcriptomes of sponges and cnidarians.
bioRxiv · Feb 27, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology