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

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

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

Linking Chemical and Microbial Diversity in Marine Sponges: Possible Role for Poribacteria as Producers of Methyl-Branched Fatty Acids

(2010) Thomas Hochmuth et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Insights into Chemistry of Biological Materials: Newly Discovered Silica-Aragonite-Chitin Biocomposites in Demosponges

(2010) Hermann Ehrlich et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

The genome of the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica provides new perspectives into the origin of Toll-like and interleukin 1 receptor pathways

(2010) Marie E. A. Gauthier et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Comparison of the anaerobic microbiota of deep-water Geodia spp. and sandy sediments in the Straits of Florida

(2010) Wolfram M Brück et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2010) Torsten Thomas et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2010) Janine Kamke 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

Marine Drugs from Sponge-Microbe Association—A Review

(2010) Tresa Remya A. Thomas et al.   Marine Drugs

Marine natural products

(2010) John W. Blunt et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Quantitative comparison of bacterial communities in two Mediterranean sponges

(2010) Charlotte Noyer et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Widespread Distribution of Poribacteria in Demospongiae

(2009) F. F. Lafi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Marine Sponges: Potential Sources of New Antimicrobial Drugs

(2009) M. Laport et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Complex nitrogen cycling in the spongeGeodia barretti

(2009) Friederike Hoffmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity of aerobic and anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in marine sponges

(2009) Naglaa M Mohamed et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

Biological Characterisation of Haliclona (?gellius) sp.: Sponge and Associated Microorganisms

(2009) Detmer Sipkema et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

PKS and NRPS gene clusters from microbial symbiont cells of marine sponges by whole genome amplification

(2009) Alexander Siegl et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

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

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

(2008) Kristina Bayer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

What do we really know about sponge-microbial symbioses?

(2008) Nicole S Webster et al.   ISME Journal

Temperature thresholds for bacterial symbiosis with a sponge

(2008) Nicole S Webster et al.   ISME Journal

The Inner Lives of Sponges

(2008) G. Vogel   SCIENCE