Snapshot of a Bacterial Microbiome Shift during the Early Symptoms of a Massive Sponge Die-Off in the Western Mediterranean

A novel sponge disease caused by a consortium of micro-organisms

(2015) Michael Sweet et al.   CORAL REEFS

The Pathogen of the Great Barrier Reef Sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile Is a New Strain of Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans Containing Abundant and Diverse Virulence-Related Genes

(2015) Jayanta D. Choudhury et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Pyrosequencing revealed shifts of prokaryotic communities between healthy and disease-like tissues of the Red Sea spongeCrella cyathophora

(2015) Zhao-Ming Gao et al.   PeerJ

STAMP: statistical analysis of taxonomic and functional profiles

(2014) Donovan H. Parks et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2014) Zhao-Ming Gao et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Removing environmental sources of variation to gain insight on symbionts vs. transient microbes in high and low microbial abundance sponges

(2013) Andrea Blanquer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular community profiling reveals impacts of time, space, and disease status on the bacterial community associated with the Caribbean spongeAplysina cauliformis

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

Host rules: spatial stability of bacterial communities associated with marine sponges (Irciniaspp.) in the Western Mediterranean Sea

(2013) Lucía Pita et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Lights and shadows: growth patterns in three sympatric and congeneric sponges (Ircinia spp.) with contrasting abundances of photosymbionts

(2013) Xavier Turon et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Till Death Do Us Part: Stable Sponge-Bacteria Associations under Thermal and Food Shortage Stresses

(2013) Lucía Pita et al.   PLoS One

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

Sponge disease in the Adriatic Sea

(2012) Cristina G. Di Camillo et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Ultrastructure, Molecular Phylogenetics, and Chlorophyll a Content of Novel Cyanobacterial Symbionts in Temperate Sponges

(2012) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Epidemic Mortality of the Sponge Ircinia variabilis (Schmidt, 1862) Associated to Proliferation of a Vibrio Bacterium

(2012) Loredana Stabili et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

A specific mix of generalists: bacterial symbionts in Mediterranean Ircinia spp.

(2011) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Emma Cebrian et al.   PLoS One

Exploring the Role of Microorganisms in the Disease-Like Syndrome Affecting the Sponge Ianthella basta

(2010) H. M. Luter et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

(2010) Susan M. Huse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2010) Hilde Angermeier et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Recurrent disease outbreaks in corneous demosponges of the genus Ircinia: epidemic incidence and defense mechanisms

(2010) Manuel Maldonado et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Effects of Sponge Bleaching on Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea: Distribution and Relative Expression of Ammonia Monooxygenase Genes Associated with the Barrel Sponge Xestospongia muta

(2010) Susanna López-Legentil et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Florida reef sponges harbor coral disease-associated microbes

(2010) Karita Negandhi et al.   SYMBIOSIS

In vitro effects of metal pollution on Mediterranean sponges: Species-specific inhibition of 2′,5′-oligoadenylate synthetase

(2009) Emilie Saby et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

The seasonal structure of microbial communities in the Western English Channel

(2009) Jack A. Gilbert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Monitoring Bacterial Diversity of the Marine Sponge Ircinia strobilina upon Transfer into Aquaculture

(2008) N. M. Mohamed et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave

(2008) J. GARRABOU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The role of microorganisms in coral bleaching

(2008) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   ISME Journal

Bleaching and stress in coral reef ecosystems:hsp70expression by the giant barrel spongeXestospongia muta

(2008) SUSANNA LÓPEZ-LEGENTIL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coral Pathogens Identified for White Syndrome (WS) Epizootics in the Indo-Pacific

(2008) Meir Sussman et al.   PLoS One