Strano, F., Micaroni V., Davy Simon K., Maldonado M. , Bell, J.J. (2021). Reproductive and early stages of the poecilosclerid sponge Crella incrustans (Carter, 1885) Invertebrate Biology DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12335

 

Maldonado M. , López-Acosta M., Busch K., Slaby B. M., Bayer K., Beazley L., Hentschel U., Kenchington E, Rapp H. T. (2021). A microbial nitrogen engine modulated by bacteriosyncytia in hexactinellid sponges: Ecological implications for deep-sea communities Frontiers in Marine Science DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.638505

 

Tréguer P.J., Sutton J.N., Brzezinski M., Charette M.A.., Devries T., Dutkiewicz S., Ehlert C., Hawkings J., Leynaert A., Liu S.M., Llopis-MonferrerN.,López-Acosta M., Maldonado M. , Rahman S., Ran L., Rouxel O. (2021). Reviews and Syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle oef silicon in the modern ocean Biogeoscience DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-1269-2021

 

de Kluijver A., Bart M. C., van Oevelen D., de Goeij J.M., Leys S.P., Maier R.S., Maldonado M. , Soetaert K., Verbiest S., Middelburg J.J. (2021). An integrative model of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in a common deep-sea sponge (Geodia barretti) Frontiers in Marine Science DOI:10.3389/fmars.2020.596251

 

Maldonado M. , Beazley L., López-Acosta M., Kenchington E., Casualt B., Hanz U., Mienis F. (2020). Massive silicon utilization facilitated by a benthic-pelagic coupled feed-back sustains deep-sea sponge aggregations Limnology and Oceanography DOI: 10.1002/lno.11610

 

Sitjà C., Maldonado M. , Farias C., Rueda J. (2020). Export of bathyal benthos to the Atlantic through the Mediterranean outflow: Sponges from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz as a case study. Deep-Sea Research I DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103326

 

Maldonado M. , López-Acosta M., Beazley L., Kenchington E., Koutsouveli V., Riesgo A. (2020). Cooperation between passive and active silicon trasporters clarifies the ecophysiology and evolution of biosilicification in sponges Science Advances DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba9322

 

Riesgo A., Taboada S., Kenny N. J., Santodomingo N., Moles J., Leiva C., Cox E., Avila C., Cardona L., Maldonado M. (2020). Recycling resources: silica of diatom frustules as a source for spicule building in Antarctic siliceous demosponges Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa058

 

Shaffer M. R., Davy S. K., Maldonado M. , Bell J.J. (2020). Seasonally driven sexual and asexual reproduction in temperate Tethya species Biological Bulletin DOI: 10.1086/708624

 

Pham C.K., Murillo F.J., Lirette C., Maldonado M. , Colaço A., Ottaviani D., Kenchington E. (2020). Correction: Removal of deep-sea sponges by bottom trawling in the Flemish Cap area: conservation, ecology and economic assessment Scientific Reports Vol 10. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52250-1

 

Pham C.K., Murillo F.J., Lirette C., Maldonado M. , Colaço A., Ottaviani D., Kenchington E. (2019). Removal of deep-sea sponges by bottom trawling in the Flemish Cap area: conservation, ecology and economic assessments Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52250-1

 

Maldonado M. ,López-Acosta M., Sitjà C., García-Puig M., Galobart C., Ercilla G., Leynaert A. (2019). Sponge skeletons as an important sink of silicon in the global oceans Nature Geosciences DOI: 10.1038/s41561-019-0430-7A

 

Abdul Wahab M. A., Maldonado M. , Luter H. M., Jones R., Ricardo G. (2019). Effects of sediment resuspension on the larval stage of the model sponge Carteriospongia foliascens Science of the Total Environment DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133837

 

López-Acosta M., Leynaert A., Chavaud L., Amice E., Bihannic I., Le Bec T., Maldonado M. . (2019). In situ determination of Si, N, and P utilization by the demosponge Tethya citrina: a benthic-chamber approach PLOS ONE DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0218787

 

Rueda J.L., Urra J., Aguilar R., Angeletti L., Bo M., García-Ruiz C., González-Duarte M., López E., MadurellT., Maldonado M. , Mateo-Rámirez A.,Megina C., Moreira J., Moya F., Ramalho L., Rosso A., Sitjà C.,Taviani M.(2019). Cold-water coral associated fauna in the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent areas Mediterranan cold-water corals: Past, present and future COLECCIÓN: Coral Reefs of the Worlds. VOL. 9. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8

 

Kenchington E., Wang Z., Lirette C., Murillo F.J., Guijarro J., Yashayaev I., Maldonado M. (2019). Connectivity modelling of areas closed to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems in the northwest Atlantic Deep Sea Research I 85-103 DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.11.007

 

Sitjà M., Maldonado M. , Farias C., Rueda J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain) Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom DOI: 10.1017/S0025315418000589

 

López-Acosta M., Leynaert A. Coquille V., Maldonado M. (2018). Silicon utilization by sponges: an assessment of seasonal changes Marine Ecology Progress Series Vol: 605. DOI: 10.3354/meps12752

 

López-Acosta M., Leynaert A., Grall J., Maldonado M. (2018). Silicon consumption kinetics by marine sponges: An assessment of their role at the ecosystem level Limnology and Oceanography DOI: 10.1002/lno.10956

 

Maldonado M., Aguilar R., Bannister R. J., Bell J. J., Conway K.W., Dayton P. K., Diaz C., Gutt J., Kelly M., Kenchington E.L.R., Leys S. P., Pomponi S.A., Rapp H.T., Rutzler K., Tendal O.S., Vacelet J., Young C.M. (2017). Sponge grounds as key marine habitats: a synthetic review of types, structure, functional roles, and conservation concerns Marine Animal Forests. Springer, Cham 1-39.

 

Otero M.M., Numa C., Bo M., Orejas C., Garrabou J., Cerrano C., Kružic P., Antoniadou C., Aguilar R., Kipson S., Linares C., Terrón-Sigler A., Brossard J., Kersting D., Casado-Amezúa P., García S., GoffredoS., Ocaña O., Caroselli E., Maldonado M. , Bavestrello G. Cattaneo-Vietti R., Özalp B.(2017). Overview of the conservation status of Mediterranean anthozoan International Union for Conservation of Nature EDITORIAL: IUCN, Málaga. ISBN: 978-2-8317-1845-3. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2017.RA.2.en

 

Ehrlich, H., Maldonado, M., Parker, A. R., Kulchin, Y. N., Schilling, J., Köhler, B., Skrzypczak, U., Simon, P., Reiswig, H.M. and 20 additional co-authors. (2016). Supercontinuum generation in naturally occurring glass sponge spicules. Advanced Optical Materials .

 

López-Acosta, M., Leynaert, A., Maldonado, M. (2016). Silicon consumption in two shallow-water sponges with contrasting biological features Limnology and Oceanography.

 

Chaves-Fonnegra, A., Maldonado, M., Blackwelder, P., Lopez, J. V. (2016). Asynchronous reproduction and multi-spawning in the coral excavating sponge Cliona delitrix. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom .

 

Maldonado, M., Aguilar, R., Blanco, J., García, S., Serrano, A., Punzón, A. (2015). Aggregated clumps of lithistid sponges: a singular, reef-like bathyal habitat with important paleontological connections.PLOS ONE 10(5): e0125378 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125378)

 

Hendry, K. R., Swann, G. E. A., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Goodwin, C., Berman, J., Maldonado, M. (2015). Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma sp. Biogeosciences, 12: 3489-3498.

 

Riesgo A., Maldonado, M., López-Legentil, S., Giribet, G. (2015). A proposal for the evolution of cathepsin and silicatein in sponges. Journal of Molecular Evolution (doi:10.1007/s00239-015-9682-z)

 

Maldonado, M. (2015). Sponge waste that fuels marine oligotrophic food webs: a reassessment of its origin and nature. Marine Ecology 36: 1-15

 

Maldonado, M. (2014). Metazoans. The Tree of Life. Systematics and Evolution of the living organisms. Chapter 16. Vargas P., Zardoya, R. (Eds.). Sinauer, Sunderland , MA, USA.

 

Sitjà, C., Maldonado, M. (2014). New and rare sponges from the deep shelf of the Alboran Island (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean). Zootaxa 3760 (2):141-179

 

Bautista-Guerrero, E. , Carballo, J.L., Maldonado, M. (2014). Abundance and reproductive patterns of the excavating sponge Cliona vermifera: a threat to Pacific coral reefs? Coral Reefs 33: 259-266

 

Riesgo, A., Novo, M., Sharma, P., Peterson, M., Maldonado, M., Giribet, G. (2013). Inferring the ancestral sexuality and reproductive condition in sponges (Porifera). Zoologica Scripta 43 (1): 101-117

 

Nosenko, T., Schreiber, F., Adamska, M., Adamski, M., Eitel, M., Hammel, J., Maldonado, M., Müller, W. E.G., Nickel, M., Schierwater, B., Vacelet, J., Wiens, M., Wörheide, G. (2013). Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 67 (1): 223-233

 

Wörheide, G., Dohrmann, M., Erpenbeck, D., Larroux, C., Maldonado, M., Voigt, O., Borchiellini, C. Lavrov, D. (2012). Deep phylogeny and evolution of sponges (Phylum Porifera). Advances in Marine Biology 61: 1-78

 

Erpenbeck, D., Sutcliffe, P., Cook, S. de, Dietzel, A., Maldonado, M., van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A., Wörheide, G. (2012). Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 809-816.

 

Maldonado, M., Ribes, M., van Duyl, F.C. (2012). Nutrient fluxes through sponges: biology, budgets, and ecological implications. Advances in Marine Biology 62: 113-182

 

Maldonado, M., Heng, C., Xupeng, C., Yuefan, S., Qu Yi, Q., Zhang, W. (2012). Experimental silicon demand by the sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis reveals chronic limitation in field populations. Hydrobiologia 687: 251-257

 

Maldonado, M., Navarro, L., Grasa, A., González, A. Vaquerizo, I. (2011). Silicon uptake by sponges: a twist to understanding nutrient cycling on continental margins. Nature Publishing Group. Scientific Reports 1(30): ; DOI: 10.1038/srep00030

 

Chu, J.WF., Maldonado, M., Yahel, G., Leys, S.P. (2011). Glass sponge reefs as a silicon sink.   Marine Ecology Progress Series 441: 1–14

 

Maldonado, M. (2010) Chapter 15. Metazoans: origin and relationships between basal groups. In:The tree of life: Systematics and Evolution.  Vargas, P., Zardoya, R. (eds).Reverte, CSIC. Madrid. (In Spanish).

 

Bautista-Guerrero, E., Carballo, J.L., Maldonado, M. (2010). Reproductive cycle of the cora-excavating sponge Thoosa mismalolli (Clionaidae) from Mexican Pacific coral reefs. Invertebrate Biology 129(4): 285-296

 

Ehrlich, H.,   Ilan, M., Maldonado, M., Muricy, G. and others. (2010). Three dimensional chitin-based scaffolds from Verongida sponges (Demospongiae: Porifera). Part I. Isolation and identification of chitin. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 47(2):132-140

 

Ehrlich, H., Richter, W., Steck, E.,  Ilan, M., Maldonado, M., and others. (2010). Three dimensional chitin-based scaffolds from Verongida sponges (Demospongiae: Porifera). Part II. Biomimetic potential and application. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 7(2):141-145

 

Maldonado, M., Riesgo, A., Bucci, A. & Rützler, K. (2010).  Revisiting silicon budgets at a tropical continental shelf: Silica standing stocks in sponges surpass those in diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography 55 (5): 2001-2010.

 

Maldonado, M, Sánchez-Tocino, L., Navarro, C. (2010). Recurrent disease outbreaks in corneous demosponges of the genus Ircinia: epidemic incidence and defense mechanisms. Marine Biology 157: 1577-1590

 

Maldonado, M., Zhang, X., Cao, X., Xue, L., Cao, H. & Zhang, W. (2010). Selective feeding by sponge on pathogenic microbes: a reassessment of potential to abatement of microbial pollution. Marine Ecology Progress Series 403:75-89.

 

Maldonado , M. & Riesgo, A. (2009). Gametogenesis, embryogenesis, and larval features of the oviparous sponge Petrosia ficiformis (Haplosclerida, Demospongiae).Marine Biology156:2181–2197

 

Maldonado, M. (2009). Embryonic development of verongid demosponges support the independent acquisition of spongin skeletons as alternative to the siliceous skeleton of sponges.Biological Journal of the Linnean Society97: 427-447.

 

Riesgo, A. & Maldonado, M. (2009). An unexpectedly sophisticated, V-shaped spermatozoon in Demospongiae (Porifera): Reproductive and evolutionary implications. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 97: 413-426.

 

Gonobobleva, E. &Maldonado, M. (2009). Choanocyte Ultrastructure in Halisarca dujardini (Demospongiae, Halisarcida). Journal of Morphology 270 (4):615-627.

 

Riesgo, A. & Maldonado, M. (2009). The ultrastructure of oogenesis in two oviparous demosponges: Axinella damicornis and Raspaciona aculeata (Porifera). Tissue & Cell 41 (1): 51-65.

 

Maldonado , M. & Riesgo, A. (2008). Reproduction in Porifera: a synoptic overview. Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Biologia 59: 29-49.

 

Maldonado, M., Giraud, K., Carmona, M.C. (2008). Effects of sediment on the survival of asexually produced sponge recruits.Marine Biology 154: 631-641

 

Riesgo, A. &  Maldonado, M.  (2008). Differences in reproductive timing among sponges sharing habitat and thermal regime. Invertebrate Biology 127 (4): 357-367.

 

Maldonado, M. & Riesgo, A.  (2008). Reproductive output in a Mediterranean population of the homosclerophorid Corticium candelabrum (Porifera, Demospongiae), with notes on the ultrastructure and behavior of the larva. Marine Ecology 29: 298-316.

 

Riesgo, A., Maldonado, M. & Durfort, M. (2008). Occurrence of somatic cells within the spermatic cysts of demosponges: A discussion of their role. Tissue & Cell 40 (5): 387-396.

 

de la Linde, A., Moreno, D. Maldonado, M. (2008). Sponges. Tethya aurantium Axinella polypoides, Calyxnicaeensis, Spongia agarician, Aplysina aerophoba & Aplysina cavernicola, Scopalina lophyropoda, Petrosia ficiformis.  In: Barea-Azcona, J. M., Ballesteros-Duperón, E. y Moreno, D. (coords.). Red BooK of Andalucian Invertebrates (in Spanish). Volumes I -IV. Consejería de Medio Ambiente,Junta de Andalucía,  Sevilla.

 

Mothes, B., Maldonado, M., Eckert, R., Lerner, C., Campos, M. & Carrazo, J.L.  (2007).  A new species of Characella (Demospongiae, Astrophorida, Pachastrellidae) from the south Brazilian continental shelf. Porifera Research. Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability. Série Livros 28. Pp. 477-482. Custódio MR, Lôbo-Hajdu G, Hajdu E, Muricy G (Eds.). Museo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.

 

Maldonado, M.  (2007).  Intergenerational transmission of symbiotic bacteria in oviparous and viviparous demosponges, with emphasis on intracytoplasmically-compartmented bacterial types. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom,  87: 1701-1713.

 

Ehrlich, H.,  Maldonado, M., Spindler K. D.,  Eckert, C., Hanke, T., Born, R., Göbel, C., Simon, P., Heinemann, S & Worch, H. (2007).  First evidence of chitin as a component of the skeletal fibers of marine sponges. Part I. Verongidae (Demospongia: Porifera). Journal of  Experimental Zoology ParB: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 308B: 347-356. 

 

Maldonado , M. & Riesgo, A. (2007).  Intra-epithelial spicules in a homosclerophorid sponge. Cell and Tissue Research, 328: 639-650. 

 

Riesgo, A., Maldonado, M. & Durfort, M. (2007).  Dynamics of gametogenesis, embryogenesis, and larval release in a Mediterranean homosclerophorid demosponge. Marine and Freshwater Research, 58: 398-417.

 

Rützler, K., Maldonado, M., Piantoni C. & Riesgo, A. (2007).  Iotrochota revisited: a new sponge and review of species from the western tropical Atlantic (Poecilosclerida:Iotrochotidae). Invertebrate Systematic, 21: 173-185

 

Zibelberg, C.,  Maldonado, M. &  Solé-Cava, A. (2006).  Assessment of the relative contribution of asexual propagation in a population of the coral-excavating sponge Cliona delitrix from the Bahamas. Coral Reefs, 25 (2): 297-301. 

 

Maldonado M. (2006). The ecology of the sponge larva. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84 (2): 175-194. 

 

Arroyo, L,  Maldonado, M. & Walters,K. (2006). Within- and between-plant distribution of harpacticoid copepods in a North-Atlantic bed of Laminaria ochroleuca. Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 86: 319-316. 

 

Maldonado, M., Cortadillas, N., Trillas M.A., Rützler K. (2005). Endosymbiotic yeast maternally transmitted in a marine sponge. Biological Bulletin 209 (2): 94-106.

 

Maldonado, M., Carmona,  M. C., Velásquez, Z., Puig, M. A., Cruzado, A., López, A., Young, C.M. (2005).  Siliceous sponges as a Silicon sink: An overlooked aspect of benthopelagic coupling in the marine Silicon cycle. Limnology and Oceanography 50 (3): 799-809

 

Preciado, I. & Maldonado, M. (2005). Reassessing the spatial relationships between sponges and macroalgae in sublittoral rocky bottoms: a descriptive approach. Helgoland Marine Research 59: 121-135.

 

Maldonado, M. (2004). Choanoflagellates, choanocytes and animal multicellularity. Invertebrate Biology ,123 (1): 1-22

 

Maldonado, M., Durfort, M., McCarthy, D. & Young, C.M. (2003). The cellular basis of photobehavior in tufted parenchymella larva of demosponges. Marine Biology, 143: 427-441

 

Ehrlich, H., Maldonado, M., Hanke, T., Meissber, H., Born, R., Scharnweber, D. & Worch, H. (2003). Spongins: nanostructural investigations and development of biomimetic material model. VDI Berichte 1803: 287-290. 

 

Maldonado, M. (2002). Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. In Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). pp.141-162. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. London.

 

Hooper, J.N.A. & Maldonado, M. (2002). Astrophorida Incertae Sedis. In: Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). pp.165-167. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. London. 

 

Maldonado, M. & Bergquist, P.R. (2002). Chapter II: Phylum Porifera. In: Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae. Young, CM. (ed.) pp. 21-50. Academic Press, London.

 

Maldonado, M., Carmona, MªC., Van Soest, R.W.M. & Pomponi, S.A. (2001). First record of the sponge genera Crambe and Discorhabdella for the eastern Pacific, with description of three new species. Journal of Natural History, 35: 1261-1276.  

 

Uriz, M. J. & Maldonado, M. (2000). The genus Acanthodendrilla in the Mediterranean Sea with description of a new species: Acanthodendrilla levii. Zoosystema, 22(2): 401-410.

 

Maldonado, M.  Carmona, Mª C, Uriz, M. J., Cruzado A. (1999). Decline in Mesozoic reef-building sponges explained by silicon limitation. Nature, 401: 785-788

 

Maldonado, M. & Uriz, M. J. (1999). Sexual propagation by sponge fragments. Nature, 398: 476.

 

Maldonado, M & Uriz, M. J. (1999). A new dendroceratid sponge with reticulate skeleton. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 44: 353-359

 

Maldonado, M., Uriz, M. J. & Carmona, M. C. (1999). Esponjas. Cooperación entre reproducción sexual yasexual potencial colonizador de las esponjas. Investigación y Ciencia , abril, 2001: 44-45

 

Maldonado, M. & Young, C. M. (1999). Effects of the duration of the larval life on postlarval stages of the demosponge Sigmadocia caerulea. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 232(1): 9-21

 

Maldonado, M. & Uriz, M. J. (1999). An experimental approach to the ecological significance of microhabitat-scale movement in an encrusting sponge.Marine Ecology Progress Series, 185: 239-255.

 

Maldonado, M. & Young, C. M. (1998). Limits on the bathymetric distribution of keratose sponges: a field test in deep water. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 174: 123-139.

 

Maldonado, M. & Uriz, M. J. (1998). Microrefuge exploitation by subtidal encrusting sponges: patterns of settlement and post-settlement survival. Marine Ecology Progress Series,174: 141-150.

 

Maldonado, M. (1998). Do chimeric sponges have improved chances of survival? Marine Ecology Progress Series, 164: 301-306.

 

Uriz, M. J., Maldonado, M., Turon, X. & Martí, R. (1998). How do reproductive output, larval behaviour and recruitment contribute to adult spatial patterns in Mediterranean encrusting sponges? Marine Ecology Progress Series, 167: 137-148.

 

Maldonado, M. & Young, C. M. (1998). A new species of poecilosclerid sponge (Porifera) from bathyal methane seeps in the gulf of Mexico.  Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 78: 795-806

 

Maldonado, M.& Young, C. M. (1998). Reevaluation of stalked aplysinid sponges, with description of a new species from the upper Bahamian slope. Bulletin of Marine Science, 62(3): 417-426

 

Maldonado, M., Georges, S., Young, C. M. & Vaquerizo, I. (1997). Depth regulation in parenchymella larvae of a demosponge: relative roles of skeletogenesis, biochemical changes and behavior. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 148: 115-124. 

 

Maldonado, M.& Young, C. M. (1996). Effects of physical factors on larval behavior, settlement and recruitment of four tropical demosponges.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 138: 169-180.

 

Maldonado, M. & Young, C. M. (1996). Bathymetric patterns of sponge distribution on the Bahamian slope. Deep-Sea Research I, 43 (6): 897-915.

 

Maldonado, M. & Uriz, M. J. (1996). Skeletal morphology of two controversial poecilosclerid genera (Porifera, Demospongiae): Discorhabdella and Crambe. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen, 50: 369-390.

 

Maldonado, M. (1996). On the presence of anatriaenes in Pachastrellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae): evidence for a new phylogenetic family concept. Journal of Natural History, 30 (4): 389-405.

 

Maldonado, M. & Uriz, M. J. (1996). A new species of Sphinctrella (Demospongiae: Astrophorida) and remarks on the status of the genus in the Mediterranean. In: Recent Advances in sponges biodiversity inventory and documentation. Ph. Willenz (ed). Bulletin de L'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Biologie 66 suppl.), pp. 153-16

 

Uriz, M. J. & Maldonado, M. (1996). The genus Igernella (Demospongiae: Dendroceratida) with description of a new species from the Central Atlantic. In: Recent Advances in sponges biodiversity inventory and documentation. Ph. Willenz (ed). Bulletin de L'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Biologie 66 suppl.)pp. 175-184.

 

Maldonado, M. & Uriz, M.J. (1995). Biotic affinities in a transitional zone between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean: a biogeographical approach based on sponges. Journal of Biogeography, 22: 89-110

 

Uriz, M. J. & Maldonado, M. (1995). A reconsideration of the relationship between polyaxonid and monaxonid spicules in Demospongiae: new data from the genera Crambe and Discorhabdella (Porifera). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 55: 1-16

 

Uriz, M. J. & Maldonado, M. (1993). Redescription of some rare sponge species in the Western Mediterranean. Scientia Marina, 57 (4): 81-94.

 

Maldonado, M. (1993). The taxonomic significance of the short-shafted mesotriaene reviewed by parsimony analysis: validation of Pachastrella ovisternata Von Lendenfeld (Demospongiae: Astrophorida). Bidragen totde Dierkunden , 63 (3): 129-148.

 

Maldonado, M. (1993). Demosponjas litorales de Alborán. Faunística y biogeografía. PhD Thesis. Department of Invertebraete Zoology. Universidad de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain, 496 pp.

 

Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges from the red coral bottoms of the Alboran Sea. Journal of Natural History, 26: 1131-1161

 

Uriz, M. J., Rosell, D. & Maldonado, M. (1992). Parasitism, commensalism or mutualism? The case of Scyphozoa (Coronatae) and horny sponges.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 81: 247-255.

 

Maldonado, M.& Uriz, M. J. (1992). Relationships between sponges and crabs: patterns of epibiosis on Inachus aguiarii (Decapoda, Majidae). Marine Biology, 113: 282-286.

 

Maldonado, M. & Benito, J. (1991). Crambe tuberosa n.sp. (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida): a new Mediterranean poecilosclerid with lithistid affinities. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 32: 323-332.