The microbial rare biosphere: current concepts, methods and ecological principles

F Pascoal, R Costa, C Magalhães - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Our ability to describe the highly diverse pool of low abundance populations present in
natural microbial communities is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Yet we currently lack …

Ecological and biotechnological importance of secondary metabolites produced by coral‐associated bacteria

F Modolon, AR Barno, HDM Villela… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Symbiotic relationships between corals and their associated micro‐organisms are essential
to maintain host homeostasis. Coral‐associated bacteria (CAB) can have different beneficial …

Metagenomic insights into the taxonomy, function, and dysbiosis of prokaryotic communities in octocorals

T Keller-Costa, A Lago-Lestón, JP Saraiva, R Toscan… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In octocorals (Cnidaria Octocorallia), the functional relationship
between host health and its symbiotic consortium has yet to be determined. Here, we …

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

I Raimundo, R Silva, L Meunier, SM Valente… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Chitin ranks as the most abundant polysaccharide in the oceans yet knowledge
of shifts in structure and diversity of chitin-degrading communities across marine niches is …

Metagenomic binning reveals versatile nutrient cycling and distinct adaptive features in alphaproteobacterial symbionts of marine sponges

E Karimi, BM Slaby, AR Soares, J Blom… - FEMS microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Marine sponges are early-branched metazoans known to harbor dense and diverse
microbial communities. Yet the role of the so far uncultivable alphaproteobacterial lineages …

Genomic blueprints of sponge-prokaryote symbiosis are shared by low abundant and cultivatable Alphaproteobacteria

E Karimi, T Keller-Costa, BM Slaby, CJ Cox… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Marine sponges are early-branching, filter-feeding metazoans that usually host complex
microbiomes comprised of several, currently uncultivatable symbiotic lineages. Here, we use …

The link between the ecology of the prokaryotic rare biosphere and its biotechnological potential

F Pascoal, C Magalhães, R Costa - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Current research on the prokaryotic low abundance taxa, the prokaryotic rare biosphere, is
growing, leading to a greater understanding of the mechanisms underlying organismal rarity …

Emerging sponge models of animal-microbe symbioses

L Pita, S Fraune, U Hentschel - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Sponges have a significant impact on marine benthic communities, they are of
biotechnological interest owing to their production of bioactive natural compounds, and they …

Molecular Taxonomic Profiling of Bacterial Communities in a Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata) Hatchery

G Califano, S Castanho, F Soares, L Ribeiro… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
As wild fish stocks decline worldwide, land-based fish rearing is likely to be of increasing
relevance to feeding future human generations. Little is known about the structure and role …

Sample processing impacts the viability and cultivability of the sponge microbiome

AIS Esteves, N Amer, M Nguyen… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Sponges host complex microbial communities of recognized ecological and
biotechnological importance. Extensive cultivation efforts have been made to isolate sponge …