publication

Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Patterns in Antarctic Continental Shelf Sponges

by on June 5, 2019 with No Comments

REFERENCE Steinert, Georg; Wemheuer, Bernd; Janussen, Dorte; Erpenbeck, Dirk; Daniel, Rolf; Simon, Meinhard; Brinkhoff, Thorsten; Schupp, Peter J (2020). Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00297. ABSTRACT Marine sponges (Phylum Porifera) are globally distributed within marine and freshwater ecosystems. In addition, sponges … Read More

Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species

by on March 14, 2019 with No Comments

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

Silicon isotopic systematics of deep-sea sponge grounds in the North Atlantic

by on March 8, 2019 with No Comments

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

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

by on February 13, 2019 with No Comments

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

Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts

by on January 15, 2019 with No Comments

REFERENCE Rubin-Blum, Maxim; Antony, Chakkiath Paul; Sayavedra, Lizbeth; Martínez-Pérez, Clara; Birgel, Daniel; Peckmann, Jörn; Wu, Yu-Chen; Cardenas, Paco; Mac Donald, Ian; Macron, Yann; Sahling, Heiko; Hentschel, Ute; Dubilier, Nicole (2019). The ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0346-7. ABSTRACT Sponges host a remarkable diversity … Read More

Deep Sea – From Unknown to Intended – Deep Sea Observatories, a Tool to Monitor Human Activities

by on October 10, 2018 with No Comments

REFERENCE Colaço, Ana; Carreiro-Silva, Marina (2018). Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Oceano: uma Utopia Útil / Sustainable Development of the Ocean: a Necessity. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2600712. ABSTRACT The deep-sea environment is the largest ecosystem on earth and poorly study. The lack of affordable technology … Read More

When is an aster not an aster? A new deep-sea Discorhabdella (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with asters, from the Mozambique Channel

by on August 31, 2018 with No Comments

REFERENCE Vacelet, Jean; Cárdenas, Paco (2018). Zootaxa https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.15. ABSTRACT Discorhabdella pseudaster n. sp. is an incrusting sponge from the upper bathyal zone of the ‘Banc du Geyser’, north of Madagascar, Mozambique Channel. This new species is described only from a … Read More

Abyssocladia vaceleti (Porifera, Cladorhizidae): a new deep-sea carnivorous sponge from Patagonia

by on August 31, 2018 with No Comments

REFERENCE Ríos, Pilar; Cristobo, Javier (2018). Limnology and Oceanography https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11610. ABSTRACT This study describes a new species of carnivorous sponge (Family Cladorhizidae) collected in Patagonia, SW Atlantic, off Argentinean waters and the North of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). The species described … Read More

Sponge grounds of Artemisina (Porifera, Demospongiae) in the Iberian Peninsula, ecological characterization by ROV techniques

by on August 31, 2018 with No Comments

REFERENCE Ríos, Pilar; Aguilar, Ricardo; Torriente, Ana; Munoz, Araceli; Cristobo, Javier (2018). Biotaxa https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.10. ABSTRACT Artemisina Vosmaer, 1885 is a poecilosclerid microcionoid sponge genus with 20 valid species, seven of which have been recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. The present … Read More

From marine caves to the deep sea, a new look at Caminella (Demospongiae, Geodiidae) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region

by on August 31, 2018 with No Comments

REFERENCE Cárdenas, Paco; Vacelet, Jean; Chevaldonnè, Pierre; Pérez, Thierry; Xavier, Joana R (2018). Biotaxa https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.14. ABSTRACT Caminella Lendenfeld, 1894 is a poorly known Geodiidae genus with unclear phylogenetic relationships. In order to find new lines of evidence that could shed … Read More

1 2 3 4 5