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

Analysis of optimal habitat for captive release of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra

(2018) DM Ceccarelli et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Agelas Wasting Syndrome Alters Prokaryotic Symbiont Communities of the Caribbean Brown Tube Sponge, Agelas tubulata

(2018) Lindsey K. Deignan et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Analysis of optimal habitat for captive release of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra

(2018) DM Ceccarelli et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Environmental Suitability of Vibrio Infections in a Warming Climate: An Early Warning System

(2017) Jan C. Semenza et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Evaluating the core microbiota in complex communities: A systematic investigation

(2017) Carmen Astudillo-García et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Disentangling causation: complex roles of coral-associated microorganisms in disease

(2017) Hanaka Mera et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogeny and genomics of SAUL, an enigmatic bacterial lineage frequently associated with marine sponges

(2017) Carmen Astudillo-García et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization

(2017) Beate M Slaby et al.   ISME Journal

Integrated metabolism in sponge–microbe symbiosis revealed by genome-centered metatranscriptomics

(2017) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial contributions to the persistence of coral reefs

(2017) Nicole S Webster et al.   ISME Journal

Consumption of dissolved organic carbon by Caribbean reef sponges

(2017) Daniel R. Hoer et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Abiotic conditions drive significant variability in nutrient processing by a common Caribbean sponge, Ircinia felix

(2017) Stephanie K. Archer 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

Increasing benthic dominance of the phototrophic sponge Lamellodysidea herbacea on a sedimented reef within the Coral Triangle

(2017) A. Biggerstaff et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Microbial indicators as a diagnostic tool for assessing water quality and climate stress in coral reef ecosystems

(2017) Bettina Glasl et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Variation in a simple trait of mangrove roots governs predator access to, and assemblage composition of, epibiotic sponges

(2017) VGW Schutte et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Expression of eukaryotic-like protein in the microbiome of sponges

(2017) C. Díez-Vives et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Marine natural products

(2017) John W. Blunt et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash

(2017) Kevin R. Foster et al.   NATURE

Short-term in situ shading effectively mitigates linear progression of coral-killing sponge Terpios hoshinota

(2017) Thangadurai Thinesh et al.   PLoS One

Insights into the lifestyle of uncultured bacterial natural product factories associated with marine sponges

(2017) Gerald Lackner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial community dynamics are linked to patterns of coral heat tolerance

(2017) Maren Ziegler et al.   Nature Communications

Effects of suspended sediments on the sponge holobiont with implications for dredging management

(2017) Mari-Carmen Pineda et al.   Scientific Reports

Host-specific assembly of sponge-associated prokaryotes at high taxonomic ranks

(2017) Georg Steinert et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2017) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Variation in a simple trait of mangrove roots governs predator access to, and assemblage composition of, epibiotic sponges

(2017) VGW Schutte et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The sponge microbiome project

(2017) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   GigaScience

Potential and active functions in the gut microbiota of a healthy human cohort

(2017) Alessandro Tanca et al.   Microbiome

Stress and stability: applying the Anna Karenina principle to animal microbiomes

(2017) Jesse R. Zaneveld et al.   Nature Microbiology

The microbiome beyond the horizon of ecological and evolutionary theory

(2017) Britt Koskella et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Effects of reciprocal transplantation on the microbiome and putative nitrogen cycling functions of the intertidal sponge, Hymeniacidon heliophila

(2017) Brooke L. Weigel et al.   Scientific Reports

The response of a boreal deep-sea sponge holobiont to acute thermal stress

(2017) R. Strand et al.   Scientific Reports

Insights into the Coral Microbiome: Underpinning the Health and Resilience of Reef Ecosystems

(2016) David G. Bourne et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Hologenome analysis of two marine sponges with different microbiomes

(2016) Taewoo Ryu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Budget of Primary Production and Dinitrogen Fixation in a Highly Seasonal Red Sea Coral Reef

(2016) Ulisse Cardini et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Environmental drivers of microbial community shifts in the giant barrel sponge,Xestospongia muta, over a shallow to mesophotic depth gradient

(2016) Kathleen M. Morrow et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ocean acidification weakens the immune response of blood clam through hampering the NF-kappa β and toll-like receptor pathways

(2016) Saixi Liu et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Differential recycling of coral and algal dissolved organic matter via the sponge loop

(2016) Laura Rix et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Interactive effects of temperature and p CO2 on sponges: from the cradle to the grave

(2016) Holly M. Bennett et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change stressors destabilize the microbiome of the Caribbean barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta

(2016) Michael P. Lesser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Metagenomic Analysis of Genes Encoding Nutrient Cycling Pathways in the Microbiota of Deep-Sea and Shallow-Water Sponges

(2016) Zhiyong Li et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Defense by association: Sponge-eating fishes alter the small-scale distribution of Caribbean reef sponges

(2016) Michael K. Wooster et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Gene Expression Dynamics Accompanying the Sponge Thermal Stress Response

(2016) Christine Guzman et al.   PLoS One

The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

(2016) C. N. Waters et al.   SCIENCE

Functional Redundancy-Induced Stability of Gut Microbiota Subjected to Disturbance

(2016) Andrés Moya et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

Temporal patterns in innate immunity parameters in reef-building corals and linkages with local climatic conditions

(2016) Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water et al.   Ecosphere

Transitioning from Microbiome Composition to Microbial Community Interactions: The Potential of the Metaorganism Hydra as an Experimental Model

(2016) Peter Deines et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Microbiome and Occurrence of Methanotrophy in Carnivorous Sponges

(2016) Jon T. Hestetun et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2016) Hannes Horn et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2016) Andrea Blanquer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

New Genomic Insights into “Entotheonella” Symbionts in Theonella swinhoei: Mixotrophy, Anaerobic Adaptation, Resilience, and Interaction

(2016) Fang Liu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Dysbiosis: Rethinking Disease in Marine Ecosystems

(2016) Suhelen Egan et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Emerging Sponge Models of Animal-Microbe Symbioses

(2016) Lucia Pita 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

Microbiome: Ecology of stable gut communities

(2016) Luke McNally et al.   Nature Microbiology

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

(2016) Volker Gloeckner et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Coral mucus fuels the sponge loop in warm- and cold-water coral reef ecosystems

(2016) Laura Rix et al.   Scientific Reports

Shedding light on cell compartmentation in the candidate phylum Poribacteria by high resolution visualisation and transcriptional profiling

(2016) Martin T. Jahn et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbial Diversity and Putative Diazotrophy in High- and Low-Microbial-Abundance Mediterranean Sponges

(2015) Marta Ribes et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A new view of the fish gut microbiome: Advances from next-generation sequencing

(2015) Mahdi Ghanbari et al.   AQUACULTURE

Global conservation status of sponges

(2015) James J. Bell et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Variability in chemical defense across a shallow to mesophotic depth gradient in the Caribbean sponge Plakortis angulospiculatus

(2015) Marc Slattery et al.   CORAL REEFS

Metagenomics meets time series analysis: unraveling microbial community dynamics

(2015) Karoline Faust et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

Stable and sporadic symbiotic communities of coral and algal holobionts

(2015) Eric R Hester et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

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

Seasonality in dinitrogen fixation and primary productivity by coral reef framework substrates from the northern Red Sea

(2015) L Rix et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Shifts in sponge-microbe mutualisms across an experimental irradiance gradient

(2015) CJ Freeman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms

(2015) Laura V. Flórez et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Sponge symbionts and the marine P cycle

(2015) Albert S. Colman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phosphorus sequestration in the form of polyphosphate by microbial symbionts in marine sponges

(2015) Fan Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

(2015) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

(2015) K. Z. Coyte et al.   SCIENCE

Tara Oceans studies plankton at planetary scale

(2015) P. Bork et al.   SCIENCE

Lifestyle Evolution in Cyanobacterial Symbionts of Sponges

(2015) Ilia Burgsdorf et al.   mBio

Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes

(2015) Seth R. Bordenstein et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

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

Seasonality in dinitrogen fixation and primary productivity by coral reef framework substrates from the northern Red Sea

(2015) L Rix et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Shifts in sponge-microbe mutualisms across an experimental irradiance gradient

(2015) CJ Freeman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

Physiological Outperformance at the Morphologically-Transformed Edge of the Cyanobacteriosponge Terpios hoshinota (Suberitidae: Hadromerida) when Confronting Opponent Corals

(2015) Jih-Terng Wang et al.   PLoS One

Prevalence and Mechanisms of Dynamic Chemical Defenses in Tropical Sponges

(2015) Sven Rohde et al.   PLoS One

Revealing microbial functional activities in the Red Sea spongeStylissa carteriby metatranscriptomics

(2014) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Influence of environmental variation on symbiotic bacterial communities of two temperate sponges

(2014) César A. Cárdenas et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Kathleen M Morrow et al.   ISME Journal

Polyketide Synthases in the Microbiome of the Marine Sponge Plakortis halichondrioides: A Metagenomic Update

(2014) Gerardo Della Sala et al.   Marine Drugs

Complex ecological associations: competition and facilitation in a sponge–algal interaction

(2014) CG Easson et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire

(2014) Micheal C. Wilson et al.   NATURE

Natural Diet of Coral-Excavating Sponges Consists Mainly of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)

(2014) Benjamin Mueller et al.   PLoS One

Reduced Diversity and High Sponge Abundance on a Sedimented Indo-Pacific Reef System: Implications for Future Changes in Environmental Quality

(2014) Abigail Powell et al.   PLoS One

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

Cell Turnover and Detritus Production in Marine Sponges from Tropical and Temperate Benthic Ecosystems

(2014) Brittany E. Alexander et al.   PLoS One

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

(2014) T.-L. Loh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of Copper Treatment on the Composition and Function of the Bacterial Community in the Sponge Haliclona cymaeformis

(2014) Ren-Mao Tian et al.   mBio

Metabolic profiles of prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities in deep-sea sponge Neamphius huxleyi indicated by metagenomics

(2014) Zhi-Yong Li et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

Eutrophication has no short-term effect on the Cymbastela stipitata holobiont

(2014) Heidi M. Luter et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Temporal changes in the diazotrophic bacterial communities associated with Caribbean sponges Ircinia stroblina and Mycale laxissima

(2014) Fan Zhang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Climate Change Influences on Marine Infectious Diseases: Implications for Management and Society

(2013) Colleen A. Burge et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

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

Could some coral reefs become sponge reefs as our climate changes?

(2013) James J. Bell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quality or quantity: is nutrient transfer driven more by symbiont identity and productivity than by symbiont abundance?

(2013) Christopher J Freeman et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2013) Lu Fan et al.   ISME Journal

Single-cell genomics reveals complex carbohydrate degradation patterns in poribacterial symbionts of marine sponges

(2013) Janine Kamke et al.   ISME Journal

Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers

(2013) Christian Wild et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Ankyrin-repeat proteins from sponge symbionts modulate amoebal phagocytosis

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

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

(2013) Morgan G I Langille et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Innate immune recognition of the microbiota promotes host-microbial symbiosis

(2013) Hiutung Chu et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Sponge Communities on Caribbean Coral Reefs Are Structured by Factors That Are Top-Down, Not Bottom-Up

(2013) Joseph R. Pawlik et al.   PLoS One

Nitrogen Biogeochemistry in the Caribbean Sponge, Xestospongia muta: A Source or Sink of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen?

(2013) Cara L. Fiore et al.   PLoS One

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

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

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

Immune response of the Caribbean sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina, exposed to an Aplanochytrium parasite as revealed by transcriptome sequencing

(2013) Colleen A. Burge et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Black Disease (Terpios hoshinota): A Probable Cause for the Rapid Coral Mortality at the Northern Reef of Yongxing Island in the South China Sea

(2012) Qi Shi et al.   AMBIO

From Animalcules to an Ecosystem: Application of Ecological Concepts to the Human Microbiome

(2012) Noah Fierer et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

Functional convergence of microbes associated with temperate marine sponges

(2012) M. Ribes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Thermal stress responses in the bacterial biosphere of the Great Barrier Reef sponge,Rhopaloeides odorabile

(2012) Rachel Simister 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

Metaproteogenomic analysis of a community of sponge symbionts

(2012) Michael Liu et al.   ISME Journal

Facilitation of coral reef biodiversity and health by cave sponge communities

(2012) M Slattery et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Deep Sequencing of Myxilla (Ectyomyxilla) methanophila, an Epibiotic Sponge on Cold-Seep Tubeworms, Reveals Methylotrophic, Thiotrophic, and Putative Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microbial Associations

(2012) Shawn M. Arellano et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

A complex LuxR-LuxI type quorum sensing network in a roseobacterial marine sponge symbiont activates flagellar motility and inhibits biofilm formation

(2012) Jindong Zan et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The human microbiome: at the interface of health and disease

(2012) Ilseung Cho et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Thermal and Sedimentation Stress Are Unlikely Causes of Brown Spot Syndrome in the Coral Reef Sponge, Ianthella basta

(2012) Heidi M. Luter et al.   PLoS One

Sponge-Microbe Associations Survive High Nutrients and Temperatures

(2012) Rachel Simister et al.   PLoS One

Functional equivalence and evolutionary convergence in complex communities of microbial sponge symbionts

(2012) L. Fan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome

(2012) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Host-Gut Microbiota Metabolic Interactions

(2012) J. K. Nicholson et al.   SCIENCE

The Chemical Ecology of Sponges on Caribbean Reefs: Natural Products Shape Natural Systems

(2011) Joseph R. Pawlik   BIOSCIENCE

Effects of climate change on Mediterranean marine ecosystems: the case of the Catalan Sea

(2011) E Calvo et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Bacteria associated with an encrusting sponge (Terpios hoshinota) and the corals partially covered by the sponge

(2011) Sen-Lin Tang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) Regina Radax et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) Patrick M. Erwin 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

Patterns of coral ecological immunology: variation in the responses of Caribbean corals to elevated temperature and a pathogen elicitor

(2011) C. V. Palmer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Complex interactions between marine sponges and their symbiotic microbial communities

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

Strict thermal threshold identified by quantitative PCR in the sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile

(2011) R Pantile et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

(2011) Emma Cebrian et al.   PLoS One

Metaorganisms as the new frontier

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

The larval sponge holobiont exhibits high thermal tolerance

(2011) Nicole S. Webster et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

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

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

(2010) Hilde Angermeier et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Overview of the Chemical Ecology of Benthic Marine Invertebrates along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

(2010) J. B. McClintock et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

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

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

Prevalence of tissue necrosis and brown spot lesions in a common marine sponge

(2010) Heidi M. Luter et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

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

(2010) Manuel Maldonado et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Association of Thioautotrophic Bacteria with Deep-Sea Sponges

(2010) Miyuki Nishijima 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

A new vision of immunity: homeostasis of the superorganism

(2010) G Eberl   Mucosal Immunology

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

Complex nitrogen cycling in the spongeGeodia barretti

(2009) Friederike Hoffmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community profiling for human microbiome projects: Tools, techniques, and challenges

(2009) M. Hamady et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Evidence of nitrification and denitrification in high and low microbial abundance sponges

(2009) Marie-Lise Schläppy et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Global warming-enhanced stratification and mass mortality events in the Mediterranean

(2009) R. Coma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial disease and the coral holobiont

(2009) David G. Bourne et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

(2008) Kristina Bayer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Diversity and expression of nitrogen fixation genes in bacterial symbionts of marine sponges

(2008) Naglaa M. Mohamed et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The functional roles of marine sponges

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

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

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

Temperature thresholds for bacterial symbiosis with a sponge

(2008) Nicole S Webster et al.   ISME Journal

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

Phototrophic nutrition and symbiont diversity of two Caribbean sponge–cyanobacteria symbioses

(2008) PM Erwin et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

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

Metabolites from symbiotic bacteria

(2008) Jörn Piel   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis

(2008) Nicole Dubilier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY