Down under the tunic: bacterial biodiversity hotspots and widespread ammonia-oxidizing archaea in coral reef ascidians

Transmission of Cyanobacterial Symbionts During Embryogenesis in the Coral Reef Ascidians Trididemnum nubilum and T. clinides (Didemnidae, Ascidiacea, Chordata)

(2016) Aoi Kojima et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Corals Form Characteristic Associations with Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

(2012) Kimberley A. Lema et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

‘Sponge-specific’ bacteria are widespread (but rare) in diverse marine environments

(2012) Michael W Taylor et al.   ISME Journal

Functional equivalence and evolutionary convergence in complex communities of microbial sponge symbionts

(2012) L. Fan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome streamlining and chemical defense in a coral reef symbiosis

(2012) J. C. Kwan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenome Mining Reveals Polytheonamides as Posttranslationally Modified Ribosomal Peptides

(2012) M. F. Freeman et al.   SCIENCE

Small core communities and high variability in bacteria associated with the introduced ascidian Styela plicata

(2012) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   SYMBIOSIS

First records of didemnid ascidians harbouringProchloronfrom Caribbean Panama: genetic relationships between Caribbean and Pacific photosymbionts and host ascidians

(2012) Euichi Hirose et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Meta-omic Characterization of the Marine Invertebrate Microbial Consortium That Produces the Chemotherapeutic Natural Product ET-743

(2011) Christopher M. Rath et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Metaxa: a software tool for automated detection and discrimination among ribosomal small subunit (12S/16S/18S) sequences of archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, mitochondria, and chloroplasts in metagenomes and environmental sequencing datasets

(2011) Johan Bengtsson et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Sponge-specific clusters revisited: a comprehensive phylogeny of sponge-associated microorganisms

(2011) Rachel L. Simister et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial diversity associated with four functional groups of benthic reef algae and the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis

(2011) Katie L. Barott et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Marine sponges and their microbial symbionts: love and other relationships

(2011) Nicole S. Webster et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Differential photoinhibition of bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidation

(2011) Stephanie N. Merbt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial diversity of biofilm communities in microniches associated with the didemnid ascidian Lissoclinum patella

(2011) Lars Behrendt et al.   ISME Journal

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Complex interactions between marine sponges and their symbiotic microbial communities

(2011) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Global Diversity of Ascidiacea

(2011) Noa Shenkar et al.   PLoS One

Cyanobacterial Diversity and a New Acaryochloris-Like Symbiont from Bahamian Sea-Squirts

(2011) Susanna López-Legentil et al.   PLoS One

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   PLoS One

Complex microbiome underlying secondary and primary metabolism in the tunicate-Prochloron symbiosis

(2011) M. S. Donia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transfer of Prokaryotic Algal Symbionts from a Tropical Ascidian (Lissoclinum punctatum) Colony to Its Larvae

(2011) Aoi Kojima et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Life in cellulose houses: symbiotic bacterial biosynthesis of ascidian drugs and drug leads

(2010) Eric W Schmidt et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The pharmaceutical value of marine biodiversity for anti-cancer drug discovery

(2010) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

(2010) Susan M. Huse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

In situ fluxes of dissolved inorganic nitrogen from the sponge community on Conch Reef, Key Largo, Florida

(2010) Melissa W. Southwell et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Epibiosis of Oxygenic Phototrophs Containing Chlorophylls a, b, c, and d on the Colonial Ascidian Cystodytes dellechiajei

(2010) Manuel Martínez-García et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Threatened Corals Provide Underexplored Microbial Habitats

(2010) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   PLoS One

Do the organic sulfur compounds DMSP and DMS drive coral microbial associations?

(2010) Jean-Baptiste Raina et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota

(2010) Anja Spang et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Complex nitrogen cycling in the spongeGeodia barretti

(2009) Friederike Hoffmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ammonia-oxidizingCrenarchaeotaand nitrification inside the tissue of a colonial ascidian

(2008) Manuel Martínez-García et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Oxygen dynamics and transport in the Mediterranean sponge Aplysina aerophoba

(2008) Friederike Hoffmann et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Phylogeny of the families Pyuridae and Styelidae (Stolidobranchiata, Ascidiacea) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

(2008) R. Pérez-Portela et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Marine chemical ecology

(2008) Valerie J. Paul et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

(2008) Céline Brochier-Armanet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY