Antarctica represents a unique environment, both due to the extreme meteorological and
geological conditions that govern it and the relative isolation from human influences that …

Advances in the sequencing of DNA extracted from media such as soil and water offer huge
opportunities for biodiversity monitoring and assessment, particularly where the collection or …

The application of high-throughput microbial community profiling as well as “omics”
approaches unveiled high diversity and host-specificity of bacteria associated with marine …

Four sponge-associated Antarctic bacteria (ie, Winogradskyella sp. strains CAL384 and
CAL396, Colwellia sp. strain GW185, and Shewanella sp. strain CAL606) were selected for …

Marine sponges host diverse microbial communities. Although we know many of its
ecological patterns, a deeper understanding of the polar sponge holobiont is still needed …

Relatively little is known about the role of sponge microbiomes in the Antarctic marine
environment, where sponges may dominate the benthic landscape. Specifically, we …

In the present study, we profiled bacterial and archaeal communities from 13
phylogenetically diverse deep-sea sponge species (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida) …

Introduction Sponges are key components of marine benthic communities, providing many
ecosystem functions and establishing close relationships with microorganisms, conforming …

Nitrification directly contributes to the ammonia removal in sponges and it plays an
indispensable role in sponge-mediated nitrogen cycle. Previous studies have demonstrated …

Covering 70% of Earth, oceans are at the same time the most common and the environment
least studied by microbiologists. Considering the large gaps in our knowledge on the …