Abstract Changes in sediment input to marine systems can influence benthic environments
in many ways. Sponges are important components of benthic ecosystems world-wide and as …

The ranges of many tropical marine species overlap in a centre of maximum marine
biodiversity, which is located in the Indo-Malayan region. Because this centre includes …

Much recent marine microbial research has focused on sponges, but very little is known
about how the sponge microbiome fits in the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity …

Coral reefs harbor diverse assemblages of organisms yet the majority of this diversity is
hidden within the three dimensional structure of the reef and neglected using standard …

In the present study, we assessed the composition of Bacteria in four biotopes namely
sediment, seawater and two sponge species (Stylissa massa and Xestospongia …

Here, we use DGGE fingerprinting and barcoded pyrosequencing data, at six cut-off levels
(85–100%), of all bacteria, Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria to assess …

Substrate cover, water quality parameters and assemblages of corals, fishes, sponges,
echinoderms, ascidians, molluscs, benthic foraminifera and macroalgae were sampled …

The distribution patterns of 37 mushroom coral species (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) were
studied on 13 reefs in the Spermonde Archipelago (Makassar Strait, Indonesia) in 1984 …

Amongst other threats, the world's oceans are faced with man-made pollution, including an
increasing number of microparticulate pollutants. Sponges, aquatic filter-feeding animals …

In this study, we used a 16S rRNA gene barcoded pyrosequencing approach to sample
bacterial communities from six biotopes, namely, seawater, sediment and four sponge …