Microbial symbionts and ecological divergence of Caribbean sponges: A new perspective on an ancient association

Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts

(2019) Maxim Rubin-Blum et al.   ISME Journal

Testing the relationship between microbiome composition and flux of carbon and nutrients in Caribbean coral reef sponges

(2019) Shelby E. Gantt et al.   Microbiome

Microbially mediated nutrient cycles in marine sponges

(2019) Fan Zhang et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges

(2018) SE McMurray et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges

(2018) SE McMurray et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A review of bottom-up vs. top-down control of sponges on Caribbean fore-reefs: what’s old, what’s new, and future directions

(2018) Joseph R. Pawlik et al.   PeerJ

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

(2018) L. Pita et al.   Microbiome

Showcasing the role of seawater in bacteria recruitment and microbiome stability in sponges

(2018) Marta Turon et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatio–temporal variation in stable isotope signatures (δ13C and δ15N) of sponges on the Saba Bank

(2018) Fleur C. Van Duyl et al.   PeerJ

Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny

(2018) F. Joseph Pollock et al.   Nature Communications

Trophic niche separation that facilitates co-existence of high and low microbial abundance sponges is revealed by in situ study of carbon and nitrogen fluxes

(2017) T. Morganti et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Sponge exhalent seawater contains a unique chemical profile of dissolved organic matter

(2017) Cara L. Fiore et al.   PeerJ

A Vicious Circle? Altered Carbon and Nutrient Cycling May Explain the Low Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs

(2016) Joseph R. Pawlik et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Selective feeding by the giant barrel sponge enhances foraging efficiency

(2016) Steven E. McMurray et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Symbiont carbon and nitrogen assimilation in the Cassiopea–Symbiodinium mutualism

(2016) CJ Freeman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Sponge Hologenome

(2016) Nicole S. Webster et al.   mBio

Symbiont carbon and nitrogen assimilation in the Cassiopea–Symbiodinium mutualism

(2016) CJ Freeman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

(2016) Volker Gloeckner et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

A new probabilistic method for quantifyingn-dimensional ecological niches and niche overlap

(2015) Heidi K. Swanson et al.   ECOLOGY

Productivity links morphology, symbiont specificity and bleaching in the evolution of Caribbean octocoral symbioses

(2015) David M Baker et al.   ISME Journal

Niche structure of marine sponges from temperate hard-bottom habitats within Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary

(2015) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Shifts in sponge-microbe mutualisms across an experimental irradiance gradient

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

A review of evidence for food limitation of sponges on Caribbean reefs

(2015) JR Pawlik et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Nitrogen cycling in corals: the key to understanding holobiont functioning?

(2015) Nils Rädecker et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Shifts in sponge-microbe mutualisms across an experimental irradiance gradient

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

A review of evidence for food limitation of sponges on Caribbean reefs

(2015) JR Pawlik et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

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

(2014) Cole G. Easson 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

Metabolic diversity and niche structure in sponges from the Miskito Cays, Honduras

(2014) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   PeerJ

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

Sponge heterotrophic capacity and bacterial community structure in high- and low-microbial abundance sponges

(2013) Ericka Poppell et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

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

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

Symbiosis catalyses niche expansion and diversification

(2013) J. B. Joy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for the role of endosymbionts in regional-scale habitat partitioning by hydrothermal vent symbioses

(2012) R. A. Beinart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits

(2011) Maren L. Friesen et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER - Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R

(2011) Andrew L. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Complex interactions between marine sponges and their symbiotic microbial communities

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

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Marine Biodiversity in the Caribbean: Regional Estimates and Distribution Patterns

(2010) Patricia Miloslavich et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote–animal symbioses

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Effects of sample preparation on stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in marine invertebrates: implications for food web studies using stable isotopes

(2008) Miguel A. Mateo et al.   OECOLOGIA

Nitrification controls on fluxes and isotopic composition of nitrate from Florida Keys sponges

(2007) Melissa W. Southwell et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY