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 …

Marine sponges belonging to the phylum Porifera (Metazoa), evolutionarily the oldest
animals are the single best source of marine natural products. The present review presents …

Sponges (phylum Porifera) are early-diverging metazoa renowned for establishing complex
microbial symbioses. Here we present a global Porifera microbiome survey, set out to …

Kelp forests define> 8000km of temperate coastline across southern Australia, where~ 70%
of Australians live, work and recreate. Despite this, public and political awareness of the …

This review presents the biological activity—antibacterial, antifungal, anti-parasitic, antiviral,
antitumor, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, and enzymatic activity—of halogenated marine …

Rhododendron delavayi Franch. is globally famous as an ornamental plant. Its distribution in
southwest China covers several different habitats and environments. However, not much …

Aquatic invertebrates are a major source of biomaterials and bioactive natural products that
can find applications as pharmaceutics, nutraceutics, cosmetics, antibiotics, antifouling …

The dichotomy between high microbial abundance (HMA) and low microbial abundance
(LMA) sponges has been observed in sponge-microbe symbiosis, although the extent of this …

The World Register of Marine Species is an over 90% complete open-access inventory of all
marine species names. Here we illustrate the scale of the problems with species names …

The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …