The recognition that all macroorganisms live in symbiotic association with microbial
communities has opened up a new field in biology. Animals, plants, and algae are now …

Sponges host dense and diverse communities of microbes (known as the microbiome)
beneficial for the host nutrition and defense. Symbionts in turn receive shelter and …

Sea sponges are the largest marine source of small-molecule natural products described to
date. Sponge-derived molecules, such as the chemotherapeutic eribulin, the calcium …

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 …

Despite an increased understanding of functions in sponge microbiomes, the interactions
among the symbionts and between symbionts and host are not well characterized. Here we …

Sponges host a remarkable diversity of microbial symbionts, however, the benefit their
microbes provide is rarely understood. Here, we describe two new sponge species from …

Many marine sponges are populated by dense and taxonomically diverse microbial
consortia. We employed a metagenomics approach to unravel the differences in the …

Eukaryotic‐like proteins (ELP s) are classes of proteins that are found in prokaryotes, but
have a likely evolutionary origin in eukaryotes. ELP s have been postulated to mediate host …

Sponges have a significant impact on marine benthic communities, they are of
biotechnological interest owing to their production of bioactive natural compounds, and they …

Mutualistic symbioses are common throughout the animal kingdom. Rather unusual is a
form of symbiosis, photosymbiosis, where animals are symbiotic with photoautotrophic …