Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: a single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses

Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts

(2019) Maxim Rubin-Blum et al.   ISME Journal

Feeding and respiration by giant barrel sponges across a gradient of food abundance in the Red Sea

(2019) Michael K. Wooster et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The architecture of cell differentiation in choanoflagellates and sponge choanocytes

(2019) Davis Laundon et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Emerging Ecological and Biogeochemical Importance of Sponges on Coral Reefs

(2019) Joseph R. Pawlik et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Trophic Ecology of the Tropical Pacific Sponge Mycale grandis Inferred from Amino Acid Compound-Specific Isotopic Analyses

(2019) Joy L. Shih et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Pluripotency and the origin of animal multicellularity

(2019) Shunsuke Sogabe et al.   NATURE

Compendium of 4,941 rumen metagenome-assembled genomes for rumen microbiome biology and enzyme discovery

(2019) Robert D. Stewart et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Testing the relationship between microbiome composition and flux of carbon and nutrients in Caribbean coral reef sponges

(2019) Shelby E. Gantt et al.   Microbiome

Single-cell visualization indicates direct role of sponge host in uptake of dissolved organic matter

(2019) Michelle Achlatis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Size Is the Major Determinant of Pumping Rates in Marine Sponges

(2019) Teresa Maria Morganti et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Identifying labile DOM components in a coastal ocean through depleted bacterial transcripts and chemical signals

(2018) Alexey Vorobev et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Single-cell measurement of ammonium and bicarbonate uptake within a photosymbiotic bioeroding sponge

(2018) Michelle Achlatis et al.   ISME Journal

A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges

(2018) SE McMurray et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges

(2018) SE McMurray et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Evolving Paradigms in Biological Carbon Cycling in the Ocean

(2018) Chuanlun Zhang et al.   National Science Review

Marine Sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic Insights and High-Resolution Visualization of an Abundant and Diverse Symbiotic Clade

(2018) Kristina Bayer et al.   mSystems

Phylogeny and genomics of SAUL, an enigmatic bacterial lineage frequently associated with marine sponges

(2017) Carmen Astudillo-García et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization

(2017) Beate M Slaby et al.   ISME Journal

Integrated metabolism in sponge–microbe symbiosis revealed by genome-centered metatranscriptomics

(2017) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   ISME Journal

Consumption of dissolved organic carbon by Caribbean reef sponges

(2017) Daniel R. Hoer et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Trophic niche separation that facilitates co-existence of high and low microbial abundance sponges is revealed by in situ study of carbon and nitrogen fluxes

(2017) T. Morganti et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Abiotic conditions drive significant variability in nutrient processing by a common Caribbean sponge, Ircinia felix

(2017) Stephanie K. Archer et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Phagocytosis of microbial symbionts balances the carbon and nitrogen budget for the deep-water boreal sponge Geodia barretti

(2017) S. P. Leys et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Sponge bioerosion on changing reefs: ocean warming poses physiological constraints to the success of a photosymbiotic excavating sponge

(2017) Michelle Achlatis et al.   Scientific Reports

Comparative Metagenomics Reveals the Distinctive Adaptive Features of the Spongia officinalis Endosymbiotic Consortium

(2017) Elham Karimi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Predicting the HMA-LMA Status in Marine Sponges by Machine Learning

(2017) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Sponge exhalent seawater contains a unique chemical profile of dissolved organic matter

(2017) Cara L. Fiore et al.   PeerJ

Differential recycling of coral and algal dissolved organic matter via the sponge loop

(2016) Laura Rix et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

An Enrichment of CRISPR and Other Defense-Related Features in Marine Sponge-Associated Microbial Metagenomes

(2016) Hannes Horn et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2016) Volker Gloeckner et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms

(2015) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Entomology

Niche structure of marine sponges from temperate hard-bottom habitats within Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary

(2015) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Shifts in sponge-microbe mutualisms across an experimental irradiance gradient

(2015) CJ Freeman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

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

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

Shifts in sponge-microbe mutualisms across an experimental irradiance gradient

(2015) CJ Freeman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Natural Diet of Coral-Excavating Sponges Consists Mainly of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)

(2014) Benjamin Mueller et al.   PLoS One

Cell Turnover and Detritus Production in Marine Sponges from Tropical and Temperate Benthic Ecosystems

(2014) Brittany E. Alexander et al.   PLoS One

Metabolic diversity and niche structure in sponges from the Miskito Cays, Honduras

(2014) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   PeerJ

Effects of ocean warming and acidification on the energy budget of an excavating sponge

(2013) James K. H. Fang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

(2013) Janine Kamke et al.   ISME Journal

Sponge heterotrophic capacity and bacterial community structure in high- and low-microbial abundance sponges

(2013) Ericka Poppell et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

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

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

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

Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

(2012) H. Teeling et al.   SCIENCE

Epithelia, an Evolutionary Novelty of Metazoans

(2011) Sally P. Leys et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Rangeomorphs, Thectardis (Porifera?) and dissolved organic carbon in the Ediacaran oceans

(2010) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Tracing 13C-enriched dissolved and particulate organic carbon in the bacteria-containing coral reef sponge Halisarca caerulea: Evidence for DOM-feeding

(2010) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

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

Cell kinetics of the marine sponge Halisarca caerulea reveal rapid cell turnover and shedding

(2009) J. M. De Goeij et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Selective feeding by sponges on pathogenic microbes: a reassessment of potential for abatement of microbial pollution

(2009) M Maldonado et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The functional roles of marine sponges

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

Major bulk dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal by encrusting coral reef cavity sponges

(2008) JM de Goeij et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis

(2008) Nicole Dubilier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY