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

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

(2015) Marc Slattery et al.   CORAL REEFS

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

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

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

How many16S-based studies should be included in a metagenomic conference? It may be a matter of etymology

(2014) Alfonso Esposito et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2014) Kathleen M Morrow et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2014) Julie Reveillaud et al.   ISME Journal

Recent advances in the ecology of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs)

(2014) SE Kahng et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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

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

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

Allelopathy in the tropical algaLobophora variegata(Phaeophyceae): mechanistic basis for a phase shift on mesophotic coral reefs?

(2013) Marc Slattery et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Genetic Structure in the Coral, Montastraea cavernosa: Assessing Genetic Differentiation among and within Mesophotic Reefs

(2013) Daniel A. Brazeau 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

Ecology of Caribbean Sponges: Are Top-Down or Bottom-Up Processes More Important?

(2013) Michael P. Lesser et al.   PLoS One

Symbiotic prokaryotic communities from different populations of the giant barrel sponge,Xestospongia muta

(2013) Cara L. Fiore et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

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

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

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

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2011) Joseph R. Pawlik   BIOSCIENCE

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

Metatranscriptomic analyses of chlorophototrophs of a hot-spring microbial mat

(2011) Zhenfeng Liu et al.   ISME Journal

Decadal-scale changes in abundance of non-scleractinian invertebrates on a Caribbean coral reef

(2011) Nicholas B. Colvard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Connectivity and stability of mesophotic coral reefs

(2011) M. Slattery et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Distance-based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects

(2011) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

Assessing the ‘deep reef refugia’ hypothesis: focus on Caribbean reefs

(2010) P. Bongaerts et al.   CORAL REEFS

Photoacclimatization by the coral Montastraea cavernosa in the mesophotic zone: light, food, and genetics

(2010) Michael P. Lesser et al.   ECOLOGY

Demographics of increasing populations of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys

(2010) Steven E. McMurray et al.   ECOLOGY

Depicting more accurate pictures of protistan community complexity using pyrosequencing of hypervariable SSU rRNA gene regions

(2010) Anke Behnke et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial ecology of corals, sponges, and algae in mesophotic coral environments

(2010) Julie B. Olson et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Pyrosequencing reveals highly diverse and species-specific microbial communities in sponges from the Red Sea

(2010) On On Lee 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

Ultrasequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, pitfalls and promises

(2010) S. CREER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Nitrogen fixation and nitrogen transformations in marine symbioses

(2010) Cara L. Fiore et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ecology of mesophotic coral reefs

(2009) Michael P. Lesser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND 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

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

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

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

Cryptic diversity of the symbiotic cyanobacterium Synechococcus spongiarum among sponge hosts

(2008) PATRICK M. ERWIN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY