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

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

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

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

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

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Symbiotic archaea in marine sponges show stability and host specificity in community structure and ammonia oxidation functionality

(2014) Fan Zhang et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Chemical defenses and resource trade-offs structure sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs

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Shifting the paradigm from pathogens to pathobiome: new concepts in the light of meta-omics

(2014) Muriel Vayssier-Taussat et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

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

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Characterizing the bacterial associates of three Caribbean sponges along a gradient from shallow to mesophotic depths

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

Sponge white patch disease affecting the Caribbean sponge Amphimedon compressa

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The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

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Effects of ocean acidification on microbial community composition of, and oxygen fluxes through, biofilms from the Great Barrier Reef

(2011) Verena Witt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea as main drivers of nitrification in cold-water sponges

(2011) Regina Radax et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Marine sponges and their microbial symbionts: love and other relationships

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

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

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

(2010) Torsten Thomas et al.   ISME Journal

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

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Bacterial diversity and White Plague Disease-associated community changes in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata

(2009) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   ISME Journal

Statistical Methods for Detecting Differentially Abundant Features in Clinical Metagenomic Samples

(2009) James Robert White et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

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

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

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