SponGES had its fourth Science-Policy panel/roundtable about North Atlantic deep-sea sponge ecosystems on 7-9 May 2019, in Rome. The meeting took place in connection with the Deep-Sea Conference arranged by the ABNJ Deep-Sea project. The meeting was organised in cooperation … Read More
The piece Sponges and corals: Seafloor assessments to help protect against climate change was published today, April 29th 2019, in the Horizon Magazine. The piece describes the rationale and current progress of the two EU-funded research and innovation projects SponGES … Read More
REFERENCE Subramani, Ramesh; Sipkema, Detmer (2019). Marine Drugs https://doi.org/10.3390/md17050249. ABSTRACT Rare actinomycetes are prolific in the marine environment; however, knowledge about their diversity, distribution and biochemistry is limited. Marine rare actinomycetes represent a rather untapped source of chemically diverse secondary … Read More
Our new infographic takes from the original “Why sponge grounds matter” one, offering concrete answers straight from the SponGES research (and who doesn’t love Vazella sponges, by the way?). The new infographic is based on these two recent papers: Beazley … Read More
REFERENCE Baker, E; Odenthal, B; Walkusz, W; Siferd, T; Ríos, P; Tompkins, G; Kenchington, E (2019). Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2644920. ABSTRACT Sponges (phylum Porifera) are benthic filter-feeding animals that play an important role in nutrient … Read More
REFERENCE Kelly, Michelle; Cárdenas, Paco; Rush, Nicola; Sim-Smith, Carina; Macpherson, Diana; Page, Mike; Bell, Lori J (2019). European Journal of Taxonomy https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.506. ABSTRACT Due to the possession of huge contort strongyles, and a lack of triaenes in an otherwise ‘astrophorine’ spicule … Read More
Research Grant for PhD Holder – (BI-PhD) 1 vacancy REFERENCE: SPONGES/BPD/2019-015 A competition is open for the attribution of 1 research grant in the framework of the project SponGES – Deep-Sea Sponge Grounds of the North Atlantic: an ecosystem-based approach … Read More
REFERENCE Hendry, Katharine L; Cassarino, Lucie; Bates, Stephanie L; Culwick, Timothz; Frost, Molly; Goodwin, Claire; Howell, Kerry L (2019). Quarternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.017. ABSTRACT Reconstruction of silica cycling in the oceans is key to a thorough understanding of past climates … Read More
REFERENCE Karimi, Elham; Keller-Costa, Tina; Slaby, Beate M; Cox, Cymon J; da Rocha, Ulisses N; Henschel, Ute; Costa, Rodrigo (2019). Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38737-x. ABSTRACT Marine sponges are early-branching, filter-feeding metazoans that usually host complex microbiomes comprised of several, currently uncultivatable … Read More
REFERENCE Riesgo, Ana; Taboada, Sergi; Pérez-Portela, Rocío; Melis, Paolo; Xavier, Joana R; Blasco, Gema; López-Legentil, Susanna (2019). BMC Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1343-6. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND. Knowledge about the distribution of the genetic variation of marine species is fundamental to address species … Read More