Dissolved organic carbon ( DOC ) is essential to balance the metabolic demands of four dominant North‐Atlantic deep‐sea sponges

Dark CO2 fixation into phospholipid-derived fatty acids by the cold-water coral associated sponge Hymedesmia (Stylopus) coriacea (Tisler Reef, NE Skagerrak)

(2020) Fleur C. van Duyl et al.   Marine Biology Research

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

(2020) Laura Rix et al.   ISME Journal

Spiculous skeleton formation in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis under hypergravity conditions

(2019) Martijn C. Bart et al.   PeerJ

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

Glass sponge grounds on the Scotian Shelf and their associated biodiversity

(2019) N Hawkes et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

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

The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems

(2018) L. Pita et al.   Microbiome

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

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

Metabolic Roles of Uncultivated Bacterioplankton Lineages in the Northern Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone”

(2017) J. Cameron Thrash et al.   mBio

SAR202 Genomes from the Dark Ocean Predict Pathways for the Oxidation of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Matter

(2017) Zachary Landry et al.   mBio

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

(2016) Torsten Thomas et al.   Nature Communications

Drivers of epibenthic megafaunal composition in the sponge grounds of the Sackville Spur, northwest Atlantic

(2015) Lindsay Beazley et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Metabolic responses of the deep-water sponge Geodia barretti to suspended bottom sediment, simulated mine tailings and drill cuttings

(2015) Tina Kutti et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Benthic grazing and carbon sequestration by deep-water glass sponge reefs

(2015) Amanda S. Kahn et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

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

Community structure and ecological function of deep-water sponge grounds in the Traenadypet MPA—Northern Norwegian continental shelf

(2013) Tina Kutti et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Deep-sea sponge grounds enhance diversity and abundance of epibenthic megafauna in the Northwest Atlantic

(2013) Lindsay I. Beazley et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

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

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

Metatranscriptomics of the marine sponge Geodia barretti: tackling phylogeny and function of its microbial community

(2012) Regina Radax et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Complex interactions between marine sponges and their symbiotic microbial communities

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

Dissolved Organic Matter in the Ocean: A Controversy Stimulates New Insights

(2011) Dennis Hansell et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Surface Area and the Seabed Area, Volume, Depth, Slope, and Topographic Variation for the World’s Seas, Oceans, and Countries

(2010) Mark John Costello et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Three-dimensional chitin-based scaffolds from Verongida sponges (Demospongiae: Porifera). Part I. Isolation and identification of chitin

(2010) H. Ehrlich et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins

(2010) Lene Buhl-Mortensen et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Complex nitrogen cycling in the spongeGeodia barretti

(2009) Friederike Hoffmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity of aerobic and anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in marine sponges

(2009) Naglaa M Mohamed et al.   ISME Journal

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

Mingulay reef complex: an interdisciplinary study of cold-water coral habitat, hydrography and biodiversity

(2009) JM Roberts et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Dissolved carbon fixation by sponge–microbe consortia of deep water coral mounds in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean

(2008) FC van Duyl et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

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