Pyrosequencing Reveals the Microbial Communities in the Red Sea Sponge Carteriospongia foliascens and Their Impressive Shifts in Abnormal Tissues

Single-cell genomics reveals complex carbohydrate degradation patterns in poribacterial symbionts of marine sponges

(2013) Janine Kamke et al.   ISME Journal

Specificity and transcriptional activity of microbiota associated with low and high microbial abundance sponges from the Red Sea

(2013) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genome sequences of rare, uncultured bacteria obtained by differential coverage binning of multiple metagenomes

(2013) Mads Albertsen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs

(2013) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   SCIENCE

Stability of Sponge-Associated Bacteria over Large Seasonal Shifts in Temperature and Irradiance

(2012) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sponge white patch disease affecting the Caribbean sponge Amphimedon compressa

(2012) H Angermeier et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Thermal stress responses in the bacterial biosphere of the Great Barrier Reef sponge,Rhopaloeides odorabile

(2012) Rachel Simister et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Low sequencing efforts bias analyses of shared taxa in microbial communities

(2012) Leandro N. Lemos et al.   FOLIA MICROBIOLOGICA

Expression of sulfatases in Rhodopirellula baltica and the diversity of sulfatases in the genus Rhodopirellula

(2012) Carl-Eric Wegner et al.   Marine Genomics

Pyrosequencing of Bacterial Symbionts within Axinella corrugata Sponges: Diversity and Seasonal Variability

(2012) James R. White et al.   PLoS One

PCR Biases Distort Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structure in Pyrosequencing Datasets

(2012) Ameet J. Pinto et al.   PLoS One

Marine sponges and their microbial symbionts: love and other relationships

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

Phylogenetic and molecular clock inferences of cyanobacterial strains within Rivulariaceae from distant environments

(2011) Julia Domínguez-Escobar et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

Reproducibility and quantitation of amplicon sequencing-based detection

(2011) Jizhong Zhou et al.   ISME Journal

Beyond the bacterium: planctomycetes challenge our concepts of microbial structure and function

(2011) John A. Fuerst et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Sponge Mass Mortalities in a Warming Mediterranean Sea: Are Cyanobacteria-Harboring Species Worse Off?

(2011) Emma Cebrian et al.   PLoS One

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

The pathology of sponge orange band disease affecting the Caribbean barrel sponge Xestospongia muta

(2010) Hilde Angermeier et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Pyrosequencing reveals highly diverse and species-specific microbial communities in sponges from the Red Sea

(2010) On On Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Rapidly denoising pyrosequencing amplicon reads by exploiting rank-abundance distributions

(2010) Jens Reeder et al.   NATURE METHODS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Conservative Fragments in Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes and Primer Design for 16S Ribosomal DNA Amplicons in Metagenomic Studies

(2009) Yong Wang et al.   PLoS One

Diversity and abundance of photosynthetic sponges in temperate Western Australia

(2009) Marie-Louise Lemloh et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Shifts in microbial and chemical patterns within the marine spongeAplysina aerophobaduring a disease outbreak

(2008) Nicole S. Webster et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Inner Lives of Sponges

(2008) G. Vogel   SCIENCE