Microbiome of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri shares compositional and functional similarities with those of marine sponges

S Sugden, J Holert, E Cardenas, WW Mohn… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Sponges are known for hosting diverse communities of microbial symbionts, but despite
persistent interest in the sponge microbiome, most research has targeted marine sponges; …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative Metagenomics Reveals the Distinctive Adaptive Features of the Spongia officinalis Endosymbiotic Consortium

E Karimi, M Ramos, JMS Gonçalves… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Current knowledge of sponge microbiome functioning derives mostly from comparative
analyses with bacterioplankton communities. We employed a metagenomics-centered …

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

J Reveillaud, L Maignien, AM Eren, JA Huber… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Microbial communities have a key role in the physiology of the sponge host, and it is
therefore essential to understand the stability and specificity of sponge–symbiont …

An environmental genomics perspective on the diversity and function of marine sponge-associated microbiota

L Grozdanov, U Hentschel - Current opinion in microbiology, 2007 - Elsevier
Numerous marine demosponges serve as habitats to phylogenetically complex microbial
communities, with population densities exceeding those of seawater by several orders of …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome

K Busch, BM Slaby, W Bach, A Boetius, I Clefsen… - nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In the deep ocean symbioses between microbes and invertebrates are emerging as key
drivers of ecosystem health and services. We present a large-scale analysis of microbial …

High compositional and functional similarity in the microbiome of deep-sea sponges

C Díez-Vives, A Riesgo - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sponges largely depend on their symbiotic microbes for their nutrition, health, and survival.
This is especially true in high microbial abundance (HMA) sponges, where filtration is …

Marine Sponge Endosymbionts: Structural and Functional Specificity of the Microbiome within Euryspongia arenaria Cells

Q Yang, JKB Cahn, J Piel, YF Song… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sponge microbiomes are typically profiled by analyzing the community DNA of whole
tissues, which does not distinguish the taxa residing within sponge cells from extracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Pyrosequencing characterization of the microbiota from Atlantic intertidal marine sponges reveals high microbial diversity and the lack of co-occurrence …

A Alex, A Antunes - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Sponges are ancient metazoans that host diverse and complex microbial communities.
Sponge-associated microbial diversity has been studied from wide oceans across the globe …

Intraspecific variation in microbial symbiont communities of the sun sponge, Hymeniacidon heliophila, from intertidal and subtidal habitats

BL Weigel, PM Erwin - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sponges host diverse and complex communities of microbial symbionts that display a high
degree of host specificity. The microbiomes of conspecific sponges are relatively constant …

[HTML][HTML] Niche–dependent sponge hologenome expression profiles and the host-microbes interplay: a case of the hawaiian demosponge Mycale Grandis

F Liu, T Ryu, T Ravasi, X Wang, G Wang, Z Li - Environmental Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background Most researches on sponge holobionts focus primarily on symbiotic microbes,
yet data at the level of the sponge hologenome are still relatively scarce. Understanding of …