Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

MDJ Lynch, JD Neufeld - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
The profound influence of microorganisms on human life and global biogeochemical cycles
underlines the value of studying the biogeography of microorganisms, exploring microbial …

The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems

L Pita, L Rix, BM Slaby, A Franke, U Hentschel - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
The recognition that all macroorganisms live in symbiotic association with microbial
communities has opened up a new field in biology. Animals, plants, and algae are now …

Mom knows best: the universality of maternal microbial transmission

LJ Funkhouser, SR Bordenstein - PLoS biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The sterile womb paradigm is an enduring premise in biology that human infants are born
sterile. Recent studies suggest that infants incorporate an initial microbiome before birth and …

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

T Thomas, L Moitinho-Silva, M Lurgi, JR Björk… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Sponges (phylum Porifera) are early-diverging metazoa renowned for establishing complex
microbial symbioses. Here we present a global Porifera microbiome survey, set out to …

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

U Hentschel, J Piel, SM Degnan… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Marine sponges (phylum Porifera) often contain dense and diverse microbial communities,
which can constitute up to 35% of the sponge biomass. The genome of one sponge …

The rare bacterial biosphere

C Pedrós-Alió - Annual review of marine science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
All communities are dominated by a few species that account for most of the biomass and
carbon cycling. On the other hand, a large number of species are represented by only a few …

IMNGS: a comprehensive open resource of processed 16S rRNA microbial profiles for ecology and diversity studies

I Lagkouvardos, D Joseph, M Kapfhammer, S Giritli… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The SRA (Sequence Read Archive) serves as primary depository for massive
amounts of Next Generation Sequencing data and currently host over 100,000 16S rRNA …

Marine sponges and their microbial symbionts: love and other relationships

NS Webster, MW Taylor - Environmental microbiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Many marine sponges harbour dense and diverse microbial communities of considerable
ecological and biotechnological importance. While the past decade has seen tremendous …

Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges

S Schmitt, P Tsai, J Bell, J Fromont, M Ilan… - The ISME …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Marine sponges are well known for their associations with highly diverse, yet very specific
and often highly similar microbiota. The aim of this study was to identify potential bacterial …

Functional equivalence and evolutionary convergence in complex communities of microbial sponge symbionts

L Fan, D Reynolds, M Liu, M Stark… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Microorganisms often form symbiotic relationships with eukaryotes, and the complexity of
these relationships can range from those with one single dominant symbiont to associations …