[HTML][HTML] Marine sponge aquaculture towards drug development: An ongoing history of technical, ecological, chemical considerations and challenges

M Maslin, N Gaertner-Mazouni, C Debitus, N Joy… - Aquaculture …, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine sponges have a long history of farming, starting with bath sponges over 5000 years
ago in the Mediterranean. Many species have since been found appropriate for distinct …

Recent advances of marine sponge-associated microorganisms as a source of commercially viable natural products

TSM Amelia, FAC Suaberon, J Vad, ADM Fahmi… - Marine …, 2022 - Springer
Many industrially significant compounds have been derived from natural products in the
environment. Research efforts so far have contributed to the discovery of beneficial natural …

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

L Rix, M Ribes, R Coma, MT Jahn, JM de Goeij… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sponges are the oldest known extant animal-microbe symbiosis. These ubiquitous benthic
animals play an important role in marine ecosystems in the cycling of dissolved organic …

Microbiome diversity and host immune functions influence survivorship of sponge holobionts under future ocean conditions

N Posadas, JIP Baquiran, MAL Nada, M Kelly… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The sponge-associated microbial community contributes to the overall health and adaptive
capacity of the sponge holobiont. This community is regulated by the environment and the …

[HTML][HTML] Sponges sneeze mucus to shed particulate waste from their seawater inlet pores

NA Kornder, Y Esser, D Stoupin, SP Leys, B Mueller… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Sponges, among the oldest extant multicellular organisms on Earth, 1 play a key role in the
cycling of nutrients in many aquatic ecosystems. 2–5 They need to employ strategies to …

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

TM Morganti, BM Slaby, A de Kluijver, K Busch… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Central Arctic Ocean is one of the most oligotrophic oceans on Earth because
of its sea-ice cover and short productive season. Nonetheless, across the peaks of extinct …

Microbiome diversity and metabolic capacity determines the trophic ecology of the holobiont in Caribbean sponges

MP Lesser, MS Pankey, M Slattery… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Sponges are increasingly recognized as an ecologically important taxon on coral reefs,
representing significant biomass and biodiversity where sponges have replaced …

Deep‐sea sponge derived environmental DNA analysis reveals demersal fish biodiversity of a remote Arctic ecosystem

OB Brodnicke, HK Meyer, K Busch… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The deep‐sea is vast, remote, and largely underexplored. However, methodological
advances in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys could aid in the exploration efforts, such as …

Anthracene and pyrene biodegradation performance of marine sponge symbiont bacteria consortium

I Marzuki, R Asaf, M Paena, A Athirah, K Nisaa… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Every petroleum-processing plant produces sewage sludge containing several types of
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The degradation of PAHs via physical, biological …

Grazing on marine viruses and its biogeochemical implications

KMJ Mayers, C Kuhlisch, JTR Basso, MR Saltvedt… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the ocean and show great diversity in
terms of size, host specificity, and infection cycle. Lytic viruses induce host cell lysis to …