Variations in Microbial Diversity and Metabolite Profiles of the Tropical Marine Sponge Xestospongia muta with Season and Depth

Chemogeography of the red macroalgae Asparagopsis: metabolomics, bioactivity, and relation to invasiveness

(2017) Stéphane Greff et al.   Metabolomics

Environmental drivers of microbial community shifts in the giant barrel sponge,Xestospongia muta, over a shallow to mesophotic depth gradient

(2016) Kathleen M. Morrow et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Climate change stressors destabilize the microbiome of the Caribbean barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta

(2016) Michael P. Lesser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Bioprospecting Sponge-Associated Microbes for Antimicrobial Compounds

(2016) Anak Indraningrat et al.   Marine Drugs

Sterol and genomic analyses validate the sponge biomarker hypothesis

(2016) David A. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

(2016) Torsten Thomas et al.   Nature Communications

The HMA-LMA Dichotomy Revisited: an Electron Microscopical Survey of 56 Sponge Species

(2016) Volker Gloeckner et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Coral mucus fuels the sponge loop in warm- and cold-water coral reef ecosystems

(2016) Laura Rix et al.   Scientific Reports

Population dynamics of giant barrel sponges on Florida coral reefs

(2015) Steven E. McMurray et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

No evidence for food limitation of Caribbean reef sponges: Reply to Slattery & Lesser (2015)

(2015) JR Pawlik et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Phosphorus sequestration in the form of polyphosphate by microbial symbionts in marine sponges

(2015) Fan Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian

(2015) Zongjun Yin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lifestyle Evolution in Cyanobacterial Symbionts of Sponges

(2015) Ilia Burgsdorf et al.   mBio

Transcriptional activity of the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta Holobiont: molecular evidence for metabolic interchange

(2015) Cara L. Fiore et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

No evidence for food limitation of Caribbean reef sponges: Reply to Slattery & Lesser (2015)

(2015) JR Pawlik et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Perilous proximity: Does the Janzen–Connell hypothesis explain the distribution of giant barrel sponges on a Florida coral reef?

(2014) Lindsey K. Deignan et al.   CORAL REEFS

Chemical defenses and resource trade-offs structure sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs

(2014) T.-L. Loh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparing the anterior nare bacterial community of two discrete human populations using Illumina amplicon sequencing

(2013) Amélia Camarinha-Silva et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterizing the bacterial associates of three Caribbean sponges along a gradient from shallow to mesophotic depths

(2013) Julie B. Olson et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Quality or quantity: is nutrient transfer driven more by symbiont identity and productivity than by symbiont abundance?

(2013) Christopher J Freeman et al.   ISME Journal

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Symbiotic prokaryotic communities from different populations of the giant barrel sponge,Xestospongia muta

(2013) Cara L. Fiore et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Functional convergence of microbes associated with temperate marine sponges

(2012) M. Ribes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Trends in the Discovery of New Marine Natural Products from Invertebrates over the Last Two Decades – Where and What Are We Bioprospecting?

(2012) Miguel Costa Leal et al.   PLoS One

Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera)

(2012) Rob W. M. Van Soest et al.   PLoS One

Sponge-Associated Bacteria Are Strictly Maintained in Two Closely Related but Geographically Distant Sponge Hosts

(2011) Naomi F. Montalvo et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Brominated aliphatic hydrocarbons and sterols from the sponge Xestospongia testudinaria with their bioactivities

(2011) Xuefeng Zhou et al.   CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF LIPIDS

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

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

Marine sponges and their microbial symbionts: love and other relationships

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

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

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities

(2011) Albert Barberán et al.   ISME Journal

In-depth Characterization via Complementing Culture-Independent Approaches of the Microbial Community in an Acidic Hot Spring of the Colombian Andes

(2011) Laura C. Bohorquez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Exploring the Links between Natural Products and Bacterial Assemblages in the SpongeAplysina aerophoba

(2010) Oriol Sacristán-Soriano et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Chemical and Biological Aspects of Marine Sponges of the Genus Xestospongia

(2010) Xuefeng Zhou et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Shifts in microbial community structure along an ecological gradient of hypersaline soils and sediments

(2010) Emily B Hollister et al.   ISME Journal

Evaluating methods for the preservation and extraction of DNA and RNA for analysis of microbial communities in marine sponges

(2010) Rachel L. Simister et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Metabolic fingerprinting as an indicator of biodiversity: towards understanding inter-specific relationships among Homoscleromorpha sponges

(2010) Julijana Ivanišević et al.   Metabolomics

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

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

Deep sequencing reveals exceptional diversity and modes of transmission for bacterial sponge symbionts

(2009) Nicole S. Webster et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fast UniFrac: facilitating high-throughput phylogenetic analyses of microbial communities including analysis of pyrosequencing and PhyloChip data

(2009) Micah Hamady et al.   ISME Journal

Molecular Microbial Diversity Survey of Sponge Reproductive Stages and Mechanistic Insights into Vertical Transmission of Microbial Symbionts

(2008) S. Schmitt et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity and mode of transmission of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in marine sponges

(2008) Doris Steger et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The functional roles of marine sponges

(2008) James J. Bell   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Redwood of the reef: growth and age of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys

(2008) S. E. McMurray et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Isolation and Analysis of Bacteria with Antimicrobial Activities from the Marine Sponge Haliclona simulans Collected from Irish Waters

(2008) Jonathan Kennedy et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The ecology and phylogeny of cyanobacterial symbionts in sponges

(2008) Kayley M. Usher   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective