Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life

An Integrative Model of Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism in a Common Deep-Sea Sponge (Geodia barretti)

(2021) Anna de Kluijver et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Bacterial precursors and unsaturated long-chain fatty acids are biomarkers of North-Atlantic deep-sea demosponges

(2021) Anna de Kluijver et al.   PLoS One

Functional metagenomics reveals differential chitin degradation and utilization features across free-living and host-associated marine microbiomes

(2021) I. Raimundo et al.   Microbiome

In situ observation of sponge trails suggests common sponge locomotion in the deep central Arctic

(2021) Teresa M. Morganti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Standard operation procedures and performance of the MICADAS radiocarbon laboratory at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany

(2021) Gesine Mollenhauer et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model

(2020) Ana Rakita et al.   Scientific Reports

Frenulate siboglinids at high Arctic methane seeps and insight into high latitude frenulate distribution

(2020) Arunima Sen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2020) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   ISME Journal

Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: a single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses

(2020) Laura Rix et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial Strategies for Survival in the Glass Sponge Vazella pourtalesii

(2020) Kristina Bayer et al.   mSystems

What Feeds the Benthos in the Arctic Basins? Assembling a Carbon Budget for the Deep Arctic Ocean

(2020) Ingrid Wiedmann et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Chloroflexi Dominate the Deep-Sea Golf Ball Sponges Craniella zetlandica and Craniella infrequens Throughout Different Life Stages

(2020) Kathrin Busch et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Mapping cold-water coral biomass: an approach to derive ecosystem functions

(2020) L. H. De Clippele et al.   CORAL REEFS

Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas

(2020) EM Roberts et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

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

Survival under conditions of variable food availability: Resource utilization and storage in the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa

(2019) Sandra R. Maier et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Sponge digestive system diversity and evolution: filter feeding to carnivory

(2019) Nelly Godefroy et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Algal export in the Arctic Ocean in times of global warming

(2019) Catherine Lalande et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Deep-sea megabenthos communities of the Eurasian Central Arctic are influenced by ice-cover and sea-ice algal falls

(2019) Elena Rybakova et al.   PLoS One

Description of new chiactine-bearing sponges provides insights into the higher classification of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea)

(2019) ADRIANA ALVIZU et al.   ZOOTAXA

Spatial patterns of arctic sponge ground fauna and demersal fish are detectable in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imagery

(2019) H.K. Meyer et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Chemosynthesis influences food web and community structure in high-Arctic benthos

(2019) EKL Åström et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Size Is the Major Determinant of Pumping Rates in Marine Sponges

(2019) Teresa Maria Morganti et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Oceanographic setting and short-timescale environmental variability at an Arctic seamount sponge ground

(2018) E.M. Roberts et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys

(2018) Autun Purser et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF OCEANIC ENGINEERING

Marine Sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic Insights and High-Resolution Visualization of an Abundant and Diverse Symbiotic Clade

(2018) Kristina Bayer et al.   mSystems

Radiocarbon in dissolved organic and inorganic carbon of the Arctic Ocean

(2017) E. R. M. Druffel et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Nitrogen dynamic in Eurasian coastal Arctic ecosystem: Insight from nitrogen isotope

(2017) Benoit Thibodeau et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The enigmatic SAR202 cluster up close: shedding light on a globally distributed dark ocean lineage involved in sulfur cycling

(2017) Maliheh Mehrshad et al.   ISME Journal

Identification of fossil worm tubes from Phanerozoic hydrothermal vents and cold seeps

(2017) Magdalena N. Georgieva et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

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

Methane cold seeps as biological oases in the high-Arctic deep sea

(2017) Emmelie K. L. Åström 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

SAR202 Genomes from the Dark Ocean Predict Pathways for the Oxidation of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Matter

(2017) Zachary Landry et al.   mBio

MEBS, a software platform to evaluate large (meta)genomic collections according to their metabolic machinery: unraveling the sulfur cycle

(2017) Valerie De Anda et al.   GigaScience

MEGAHIT v1.0: A fast and scalable metagenome assembler driven by advanced methodologies and community practices

(2016) Dinghua Li et al.   METHODS

Mid-ocean-ridge seismicity reveals extreme types of ocean lithosphere

(2016) Vera Schlindwein et al.   NATURE

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

Dissolved organic matter in pore water of Arctic Ocean sediments: Environmental influence on molecular composition

(2016) Pamela E. Rossel et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Origins and Evolutionary Flexibility of Chemosynthetic Symbionts From Deep-Sea Animals

(2016) Jillian M. Petersen et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

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

(2016) Volker Gloeckner et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Drivers of epibenthic megafaunal composition in the sponge grounds of the Sackville Spur, northwest Atlantic

(2015) Lindsay Beazley et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

(2015) Donovan H. Parks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges

(2015) Paco Cárdenas et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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

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

Benthic O2 uptake of two cold-water coral communities estimated with the non-invasive eddy correlation technique

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

Ecosystem characteristics and processes facilitating persistent macrobenthic biomass hotspots and associated benthivory in the Pacific Arctic

(2015) Jacqueline M. Grebmeier et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Benthic O2 uptake of two cold-water coral communities estimated with the non-invasive eddy correlation technique

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

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Seasonal Variation of Fatty Acids and Stable Carbon Isotopes in Sponges as Indicators for Nutrition: Biomarkers in Sponges Identified

(2014) Marieke Koopmans et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Community structure and ecological function of deep-water sponge grounds in the Traenadypet MPA—Northern Norwegian continental shelf

(2013) Tina Kutti et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

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

(2013) Janine Kamke et al.   ISME Journal

Pfam: the protein families database

(2013) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Relationships between Host Phylogeny, Host Type and Bacterial Community Diversity in Cold-Water Coral Reef Sponges

(2013) Sandra Schöttner et al.   PLoS One

Cold Seep Epifaunal Communities on the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Composition, Succession, and Vulnerability to Human Activities

(2013) David A. Bowden et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Export of Algal Biomass from the Melting Arctic Sea Ice

(2013) A. Boetius et al.   SCIENCE

Metatranscriptomics of the marine sponge Geodia barretti: tackling phylogeny and function of its microbial community

(2012) Regina Radax et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon Fractions

(2011) Dennis A. Hansell   Annual Review of Marine Science

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

(2011) Regina Radax et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

The cold-water coral community as hotspot of carbon cycling on continental margins: A food-web analysis from Rockall Bank (northeast Atlantic)

(2011) Dick van Oevelen et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

(2011) R. D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Microbiology of Seamounts: Common Patterns Observed in Community Structure

(2011) David Emerson et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

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

Source Partitioning Using Stable Isotopes: Coping with Too Much Variation

(2010) Andrew C. Parnell et al.   PLoS One

Primary production and climatic variability in the European sector of the Arctic Ocean prior to 2007: preliminary results

(2010) Paul Wassmann et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Complex nitrogen cycling in the spongeGeodia barretti

(2009) Friederike Hoffmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sponge budding is a spatiotemporal morphological patterning process: Insights from synchrotron radiation-based x-ray microtomography into the asexual reproduction of Tethya wilhelma

(2009) Jörg U Hammel et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

A simple radiocarbon dating method for determining the age and growth rate of deep-sea sponges

(2009) S.J. Fallon et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Seamount volcanism along the Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean

(2008) James R. Cochran   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Impact of a shrinking Arctic ice cover on marine primary production

(2008) Kevin R. Arrigo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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