An Integrative Model of Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism in a Common Deep-Sea Sponge (Geodia barretti)

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REFERENCE de Kluijvier, Anna; Martijn, Bart; van Oevelen, Dick; de Goeij, Jasper; Leys, Sally P; Maier, Sandra; Maldonado, Manuel; Soetaert, Karline; Verbiest, Sanders; Middelburg, Jack J (2021). Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.596251. ABSTRACT Deep-sea sponges and their microbial symbionts transform … Read More

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is essential to balance the metabolic demands of four dominant North‐Atlantic deep‐sea sponges

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REFERENCE Bart, Martijn; Mueller, benjamin; Rombotus, Titus; van de Ven, Clea; Tompkins, Gabrielle J; Osinga, Ronald; Brussaard, Corina PD; MacDonald, Barry; Engel, Anja; Rapp, Hans Tore; de Goeij, Jasper M (2020). Limnology and Oceanography https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11652. ABSTRACT Sponges are ubiquitous components … Read More

Marine sponges as Chloroflexi hot spots: Genomic insights and high-resolution visualization of an abundant and diverse symbiotic clade

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REFERENCE Bayer, Kristina; Jahn, Martin; Slaby, Beate M; Moitinho-Silva, Lucas; Hentschel, Ute (2018). mSystems. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00150-18. ABSTRACT Members of the widespread bacterial phylum Chloroflexi can dominate high-microbial-abundance (HMA) sponge microbiomes. In the Sponge Microbiome Project, Chloroflexi sequences amounted to 20 to … Read More