Characterization of Bacterial, Archaeal and Eukaryote Symbionts from Antarctic Sponges Reveals a High Diversity at a Three-Domain Level and a Particular Signature for This Ecosystem

The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations

(2014) Jack A Gilbert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Pezizomycotinadominates the fungal communities of South China Sea SpongesTheonella swinhoeiandXestospongia testudinaria

(2014) Liling Jin et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Influence of environmental variation on symbiotic bacterial communities of two temperate sponges

(2014) César A. Cárdenas et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Symbiosis as the way of eukaryotic life: The dependent co-origination of the body

(2014) Scott F Gilbert   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Comparisons of the Fungal and Protistan Communities among Different Marine Sponge Holobionts by Pyrosequencing

(2014) Liming He et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Optimal Eukaryotic 18S and Universal 16S/18S Ribosomal RNA Primers and Their Application in a Study of Symbiosis

(2014) Yong Wang et al.   PLoS One

Evidence of a Putative Deep Sea Specific Microbiome in Marine Sponges

(2014) Jonathan Kennedy et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic signal in the community structure of host-specific microbiomes of tropical marine sponges

(2014) Cole G. Easson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Habitat- and host-related variation in sponge bacterial symbiont communities in Indonesian waters

(2013) Daniel F.R. Cleary et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges

(2013) Stephen A. Jackson et al.   PLoS One

Evidence of Unique and Generalist Microbes in Distantly Related Sympatric Intertidal Marine Sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae)

(2013) Anoop Alex et al.   PLoS One

Diversity of cultivable fungi associated with Antarctic marine sponges and screening for their antimicrobial, antitumoral and antioxidant potential

(2013) Marlene Henríquez et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Functional convergence of microbes associated with temperate marine sponges

(2012) M. Ribes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biogeographic partitioning of Southern Ocean microorganisms revealed by metagenomics

(2012) David Wilkins et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community profiles in low microbial abundance sponges

(2012) Emily C. Giles et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Michael W Taylor et al.   ISME Journal

Pyrosequencing Reveals Diverse and Distinct Sponge-Specific Microbial Communities in Sponges from a Single Geographical Location in Irish Waters

(2012) Stephen A. Jackson et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

(2012) Laure Guillou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Sponge-associated microbial Antarctic communities exhibiting antimicrobial activity against Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria

(2011) Maria Cristiana Papaleo et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

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

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

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea as main drivers of nitrification in cold-water sponges

(2011) Regina Radax et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Chloroflexi bacteria are more diverse, abundant, and similar in high than in low microbial abundance sponges

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

Linking Chemical and Microbial Diversity in Marine Sponges: Possible Role for Poribacteria as Producers of Methyl-Branched Fatty Acids

(2010) Thomas Hochmuth et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

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

(2010) On On Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Functional genomic signatures of sponge bacteria reveal unique and shared features of symbiosis

(2010) Torsten Thomas et al.   ISME Journal

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

A Method for Studying Protistan Diversity Using Massively Parallel Sequencing of V9 Hypervariable Regions of Small-Subunit Ribosomal RNA Genes

(2009) Linda A. Amaral-Zettler et al.   PLoS One

Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging toSyndiniales(Alveolata)

(2008) L. Guillou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY