Emerging Sponge Models of Animal-Microbe Symbioses

Hologenome analysis of two marine sponges with different microbiomes

(2016) Taewoo Ryu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genome editing in sea urchin embryos by using a CRISPR/Cas9 system

(2016) Che-Yi Lin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Bioprospecting Sponge-Associated Microbes for Antimicrobial Compounds

(2016) Anak Indraningrat et al.   Marine Drugs

Restructuring of the sponge microbiome favors tolerance to ocean acidification

(2016) M. Ribes et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The Sponge Hologenome

(2016) Nicole S. Webster et al.   mBio

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

(2016) Torsten Thomas et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2016) Hannes Horn et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

In four shallow and mesophotic tropical reef sponges from Guam the microbial community largely depends on host identity

(2016) Georg Steinert et al.   PeerJ

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

(2016) Volker Gloeckner et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Intraspecific Variation in Microbial Symbiont Communities of the Sun Sponge, Hymeniacidon heliophila, from Intertidal and Subtidal Habitats

(2015) Brooke L. Weigel et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deep developmental transcriptome sequencing uncovers numerous new genes and enhances gene annotation in the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica

(2015) Selene L Fernandez-Valverde et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The surprisingly complex immune gene repertoire of a simple sponge, exemplified by the NLR genes: A capacity for specificity?

(2015) Sandie M. Degnan   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Can light intensity cause shifts in natural product and bacterial profiles of the spongeAplysina aerophoba?

(2015) Oriol Sacristán-Soriano et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

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

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

Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges

(2014) Danielle A Ludeman et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Transcriptomic analysis of differential host gene expression upon uptake of symbionts: a case study with Symbiodinium and the major bioeroding sponge Cliona varians

(2014) Ana Riesgo et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genomic analysis reveals versatile heterotrophic capacity of a potentially symbiotic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium in sponge

(2014) Ren-Mao Tian et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Natural volcanic CO2 seeps reveal future trajectories for host–microbial associations in corals and sponges

(2014) Kathleen M Morrow et al.   ISME Journal

Application of Diffusion Growth Chambers for the Cultivation of Marine Sponge-Associated Bacteria

(2014) Georg Steinert et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Marine Sponge Derived Natural Products between 2001 and 2010: Trends and Opportunities for Discovery of Bioactives

(2014) Mohammad Mehbub et al.   Marine Drugs

The Analysis of Eight Transcriptomes from All Poriferan Classes Reveals Surprising Genetic Complexity in Sponges

(2014) Ana Riesgo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Candidate Phylum Poribacteria by Single-Cell Genomics: New Insights into Phylogeny, Cell-Compartmentation, Eukaryote-Like Repeat Proteins, and Other Genomic Features

(2014) Janine Kamke et al.   PLoS One

Symbiotic Adaptation Drives Genome Streamlining of the Cyanobacterial Sponge Symbiont "Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum"

(2014) Z.-M. Gao et al.   mBio

TALEN and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in the early-branching metazoan Nematostella vectensis

(2014) Aissam Ikmi et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Effects of sample handling and cultivation bias on the specificity of bacterial communities in keratose marine sponges

(2014) Cristiane C. P. Hardoim et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biogeography rather than association with cyanobacteria structures symbiotic microbial communities in the marine sponge Petrosia ficiformis

(2014) Ilia Burgsdorf et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

One-Step Generation of Mice Carrying Mutations in Multiple Genes by CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Genome Engineering

(2013) Haoyi Wang et al.   CELL

Implementing sponge physiological and genomic information to enhance the diversity of its culturable associated bacteria

(2013) Adi Lavy 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

Exploring host-microbiota interactions in animal models and humans

(2013) A. D. Kostic et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Genome Engineering of Drosophila with the CRISPR RNA-Guided Cas9 Nuclease

(2013) Scott J. Gratz et al.   GENETICS

Marine microbial symbiosis heats up: the phylogenetic and functional response of a sponge holobiont to thermal stress

(2013) Lu Fan et al.   ISME Journal

Specificity and transcriptional activity of microbiota associated with low and high microbial abundance sponges from the Red Sea

(2013) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ankyrin-repeat proteins from sponge symbionts modulate amoebal phagocytosis

(2013) Mary T. H. D. Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Efficient genome editing in zebrafish using a CRISPR-Cas system

(2013) Woong Y Hwang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Innate immune recognition of the microbiota promotes host-microbial symbiosis

(2013) Hiutung Chu et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Heritable genome editing in C. elegans via a CRISPR-Cas9 system

(2013) Ari E Friedland et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

(2013) Lucía Pita et al.   PLoS One

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas-based methods for genome engineering

(2013) Thomas Gaj et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Stability of Sponge-Associated Bacteria over Large Seasonal Shifts in Temperature and Irradiance

(2012) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Transcriptome profiling of the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica reveals genome-wide events that accompany major life cycle transitions

(2012) Cecilia Conaco et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Functional convergence of microbes associated with temperate marine sponges

(2012) M. Ribes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2012) Regina Radax et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental manipulation of sponge/bacterial symbiont community composition with antibiotics: sponge cell aggregates as a unique tool to study animal/microorganism symbiosis

(2012) Crystal Richardson et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Metaproteogenomic analysis of a community of sponge symbionts

(2012) Michael Liu et al.   ISME Journal

RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea

(2012) Blake Wiedenheft et al.   NATURE

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

MyD88-deficient Hydra reveal an ancient function of TLR signaling in sensing bacterial colonizers

(2012) S. Franzenburg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity

(2012) M. Jinek et al.   SCIENCE

RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges: actin knockdown in Tethya wilhelma and Ephydatia muelleri by ingested dsRNA expressing bacteria

(2011) Ajna S Rivera et al.   BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY

Marine sponges and their microbial symbionts: love and other relationships

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

Meeting Report: 1st International Symposium on Sponge Microbiology

(2011) Michael W. Taylor et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Optimization of preservation and storage time of sponge tissues to obtain quality mRNA for next-generation sequencing

(2011) ANA RIESGO et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Investigations of the constitutive overexpression of CYP6D1 in the permethrin resistant LPR strain of house fly (Musca domestica)

(2011) George Guan-Hua Lin et al.   PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

Metaorganisms as the new frontier

(2011) Thomas C.G. Bosch et al.   ZOOLOGY

Functional genomic analysis of an uncultured δ-proteobacterium in the sponge Cymbastela concentrica

(2010) Michael Yizhe Liu et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2010) Torsten Thomas et al.   ISME Journal

Single-cell genomics reveals the lifestyle of Poribacteria, a candidate phylum symbiotically associated with marine sponges

(2010) Alexander Siegl et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial Community Dynamics in the Marine Sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile Under In Situ and Ex Situ Cultivation

(2010) Nicole S. Webster et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential

(2010) Emily D. M. Adams et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Morphological, Bacterial, and Secondary Metabolite Changes of Aplysina aerophoba upon Long-Term Maintenance Under Artificial Conditions

(2009) Berna Gerçe et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Differences in reproductive timing among sponges sharing habitat and thermal regime

(2008) Ana Riesgo et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

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

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

Symbiotic conversations are revealed under genetic interrogation

(2008) Edward G. Ruby   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY