Cyanobacterial taxonomy is facing a period of rapid changes thanks to the ease of 16S
rRNA gene sequencing and established workflows for description of new taxa. Since the last …

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 …

Beneficial associations with bacteria are widespread across animals, spanning a range of
symbiont localizations, transmission routes, and functions. While some of these associations …

Marine sponges are ancient metazoans that are populated by distinct and highly diverse
microbial communities. In order to obtain deeper insights into the functional gene repertoire …

ABSTRACT A paradigm shift has recently transformed the field of biological science;
molecular advances have revealed how fundamentally important microorganisms are to …

Cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus are major contributors to global primary
productivity and are found in a wide range of aquatic ecosystems. This Synechococcus …

Microbially mediated processes contribute to coral reef resilience yet, despite extensive
characterisation of microbial community variation following environmental perturbation, the …

Members of the widespread bacterial phylum Chloroflexi can dominate high-microbial-
abundance (HMA) sponge microbiomes. In the Sponge Microbiome Project, Chloroflexi …

Sponges host a remarkable diversity of microbial symbionts, however, the benefit their
microbes provide is rarely understood. Here, we describe two new sponge species from …

Marine sponges often house small-molecule-producing symbionts extracellularly in their
mesohyl, providing the host with a means of chemical defence against predation and …