Mutualistic symbioses are common throughout the animal kingdom. Rather unusual is a
form of symbiosis, photosymbiosis, where animals are symbiotic with photoautotrophic …

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 …

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 …

Coastal ecosystems play significant ecological and economic roles but are threatened and
facing decline. Microbes drive various biogeochemical processes in coastal ecosystems …

It has long been recognized that sponges differ in the abundance of associated
microorganisms, and they are therefore termed either 'low microbial abundance'(LMA) or …

A novel thermophilic, chemoheterotrophic, Gram-negative-staining, multicellular filamentous
bacterium, designated strain 110ST, was isolated from an iron-rich coastal hydrothermal …

Marine sponges host bacterial communities with important ecological and economic roles in
nature and society, yet these benefits depend largely on the stability of host–symbiont …

The symbiosis between bacteria and sponges has arguably the longest evolutionary history
for any extant metazoan lineage, yet little is known about bacterial evolution or adaptation in …

Sponge-associated microbial communities include members from the three domains of life.
In the case of bacteria, they are diverse, host specific and different from the surrounding …

Sponges are ubiquitous components of various deep‐sea habitats, including cold water
coral reefs, and form deep‐sea sponge grounds. Although the deep sea is generally …