In their Reply to the Nature‘s Matter Arising, the group of Professors, led by Giacomo Falcucci and including our own Maurizio Porfiri, discuss the validity of the assumption of neglecting the sponge tissue in their hydrodynamic simulations of the deep-sea glass sponge Euplectella aspergillum.
Read the comment by S. Leyes et al. “Models of flow through sponges must consider the sponge tissue” here.
Read the response of the researchers “Reply to: Models of flow through sponges must consider the sponge tissue” here.
Read the full original paper “Extreme flow simulations reveal skeletal adaptations of deep-sea sponges” here.
National Science Foundation also recently published a high defintion version of the illustration presenting the hydrodynamic field inside and outside the skeletal structure of the Venus flower basket sponge, created by Prof. Falcucci’s team – see it here.
Image credit: Giacomo Falcucci et al.