Bacteria cultivated from sponges and bacteria not yet cultivated from sponges—A review

TTH Dat, G Steinert, NTK Cuc, H Smidt… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The application of high-throughput microbial community profiling as well as “omics”
approaches unveiled high diversity and host-specificity of bacteria associated with marine …

Decoupling of strain-and intrastrain-level interactions of microbiomes in a sponge holobiont

W Wang, W Song, ME Majzoub, X Feng, B Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Holobionts are highly organized assemblages of eukaryotic hosts, cellular microbial
symbionts, and viruses, whose interactions and evolution involve complex biological …

Lineage-specific energy and carbon metabolism of sponge symbionts and contributions to the host carbon pool

I Burgsdorf, S Sizikov, V Squatrito, M Britstein… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Marine sponges host a wide diversity of microorganisms, which have versatile modes of
carbon and energy metabolism. In this study we describe the major lithoheterotrophic and …

Candidatus Nemesobacterales is a sponge-specific clade of the candidate phylum Desulfobacterota adapted to a symbiotic lifestyle

A Gavriilidou, B Avcı, A Galani, MA Schorn… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Members of the candidate phylum Dadabacteria, recently reassigned to the phylum
Candidatus Desulfobacterota, are cosmopolitan in the marine environment found both free …

Bioactive Diepoxy Metabolites and Highly Oxygenated Triterpenoids from Marine and Plant-Derived Bacteria and Fungi

VM Dembitsky - Microbiology Research, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article explores the diverse array of biologically active compounds derived from
microbial symbionts, particularly focusing on the isolation and characterization of …

Diversity and antimicrobial activity of Vietnamese sponge-associated bacteria

TTH Dat, NTK Cuc, PV Cuong, H Smidt, D Sipkema - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to assess the diversity and antimicrobial activity of cultivable bacteria
associated with Vietnamese sponges. In total, 460 bacterial isolates were obtained from 18 …

Synthase-selected sorting approach identifies a beta-lactone synthase in a nudibranch symbiotic bacterium

M Džunková, JJ La Clair, T Tyml, D Doud, F Schulz… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Nudibranchs comprise a group of> 6000 marine soft-bodied mollusk species
known to use secondary metabolites (natural products) for chemical defense. The full …

Stability of the Microbiome of the Sponge Mycale (Oxymycale) acerata in the Western Antarctic Peninsula

L Happel, R Rondon, A Font… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The sponge microbiome, especially in Low Microbial Abundance (LMA) species, is expected
to be influenced by the local environment; however, contrasting results exist with evidence …

Bacterial aerobic methane cycling by the marine sponge-associated microbiome

GA Ramírez, R Bar-Shalom, A Furlan, R Romeo… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Methanotrophy by the sponge-hosted microbiome has been mainly reported in
the ecological context of deep-sea hydrocarbon seep niches where methane is either …