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

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

(2016) Torsten Thomas et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Biogeographic variation in the microbiome of the ecologically important sponge,Carteriospongia foliascens

(2015) Heidi M. Luter et al.   PeerJ

An improved nonparametric lower bound of species richness via a modified good-turing frequency formula

(2014) Chun-Huo Chiu et al.   BIOMETRICS

The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations

(2014) Jack A Gilbert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Meta-analyses of human gut microbes associated with obesity and IBD

(2014) William A. Walters et al.   FEBS LETTERS

GeoChip-based insights into the microbial functional gene repertoire of marine sponges (high microbial abundance, low microbial abundance) and seawater

(2014) Kristina Bayer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Host-specificity among abundant and rare taxa in the sponge microbiome

(2014) Julie Reveillaud et al.   ISME Journal

An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire

(2014) Micheal C. Wilson et al.   NATURE

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

(2014) Cole G. Easson 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

Specificity and temporal dynamics of complex bacteria–sponge symbiotic interactions

(2013) Johannes R. Björk et al.   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

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

Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences

(2013) N. E. Redmond et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Machine learning in cell biology – teaching computers to recognize phenotypes

(2013) Christoph Sommer et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Ultrastructure of the ciliated cells of the free-swimming larva, and sessile stages, of the marine spongeHaliclona indistincta(Demospongiae: haplosclerida)

(2013) Kelly M. Stephens et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

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

Deep Sequencing Identifies Ethnicity-Specific Bacterial Signatures in the Oral Microbiome

(2013) Matthew R. Mason et al.   PLoS One

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

Bacterial community profiles in low microbial abundance sponges

(2012) Emily C. Giles et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Random forests for genomic data analysis

(2012) Xi Chen et al.   GENOMICS

Unique and species-specific microbial communities in Oscarella lobularis and other Mediterranean Oscarella species (Porifera: Homoscleromorpha)

(2012) Volker Gloeckner et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

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

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

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera)

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

Phylogenetically and Spatially Close Marine Sponges Harbour Divergent Bacterial Communities

(2012) Cristiane C. P. Hardoim et al.   PLoS One

mvabund- anRpackage for model-based analysis of multivariate abundance data

(2012) Yi Wang et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

APCluster: an R package for affinity propagation clustering

(2011) U. Bodenhofer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Marine Haplosclerida (Phylum Porifera) Employing Ribosomal (28S rRNA) and Mitochondrial (cox1, nad1) Gene Sequence Data

(2011) Niamh E. Redmond 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

Activity profiles for marine sponge-associated bacteria obtained by 16S rRNA vs 16S rRNA gene comparisons

(2010) Janine Kamke et al.   ISME Journal

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

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Physiology, phylogeny andin situevidence for bacterial and archaeal nitrifiers in the marine spongeAplysina aerophoba

(2008) Kristina Bayer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The functional roles of marine sponges

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