Global patterns in symbiont selection and transmission strategies in sponges

C Díez-Vives, V Koutsouveli, M Conejero… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

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 …

What happens between depositional events, stays between depositional events: the significance of organic mat surfaces in the capture of Ediacara communities and …

ML Droser, SD Evans, LG Tarhan… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the absence of complex, bioturbating organisms, the seafloor during the Precambrian was
covered in widespread organic matgrounds. The greatest diversity and complexity of organic …

Habitat types and megabenthos composition from three sponge-dominated high-Arctic seamounts

T Stratmann, E Simon-Lledó, TM Morganti… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Seamounts are isolated underwater mountains stretching> 1000 m above the seafloor. They
are identified as biodiversity hotspots of marine life, and host benthic assemblages that may …

Five hundred million years to mobility: directed locomotion and its ecological function in a turtle barnacle

BKK Chan, YH Wong, NJ Robinson… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life, yet some invertebrate taxa, such as
barnacles, permanently affix to a substratum as adults. Adult barnacles became 'sessile'over …

The emerging picture of a diverse deep Arctic Ocean seafloor: From habitats to ecosystems

E Ramirez-Llodra, HK Meyer, BA Bluhm… - Elementa: Science of …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
deep-sea benthic Arctic communities remains very limited. Yet, through our compilation of
habitat maps, we show that the Arctic contains a high diversity of geomorphological features …

Drivers of pelagic and benthic microbial communities on Central Arctic seamounts

A von Jackowski, M Walter, T Spiegel… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Seamounts are abundant features on the seafloor that serve as hotspots and barriers for the
dispersal of benthic organisms. The primary focus of seamount ecology has typically been …

Long-term observations of a sponge in situ reveal a rich repertoire of contractile behaviors, including winter dormancy

DE Harrison, MS Diluvio, E Matveev… - Marine Ecology …, 2024 - int-res.com
Sponges are remarkably active animals with a range of behaviors that are broadly termed
sneezes. Little is known about what triggers sneezes or how sneezes propagate in an …

Zootaxa 20 years: Phylum Porifera

JNA Hooper, G Wörheide, E Hajdu, D Erpenbeck… - Zootaxa, 2021 - biotaxa.org
The peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa has accelerated the rate of sponge (Porifera) species
discoveries in 289 peer-reviewed papers published between 2002 up until the end of 2020 …

Deep origin of the long root tuft: the oldest stalk-bearing sponge from the Cambrian Stage 3 black shale of South China

H Yun, D Janussen, X Zhang, J Reitner - Lethaia, 2023 - idunn.no
By virtue of remarkable tolerance on hypoxia and adaptive specialization in morphology,
diverse hexactinellid sponges prospered in an early Cambrian environment characterized …