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Morphological characterization of virus-like particles in coral reef sponges.
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- The compact genome of the sponge Oopsacas minuta (Hexactinellida) is lacking key metazoan core genes.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Staying below the Radar: Unraveling a New Family of Ubiquitous "Cryptic" Non-Tailed Temperate Vibriophages and Implications for Their Bacterial Hosts.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Metagenomic Assessment of DNA Viral Diversity in Freshwater Sponges,Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Transmission studies and the composition of prokaryotic communities associated with healthy and diseased Aplysina cauliformis sponges suggest that Aplysina Red Band Syndrome is a prokaryotic polymicrobial disease.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2022Article
- An Interplay between Viruses and Bacteria Associated with the White Sea Sponges Revealed by Metagenomics.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Unique phage-bacterium interplay in sponge holobionts from the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal vent.Environmental microbiology reports · 2021Article
- Lifestyle of sponge symbiont phages by host prediction and correlative microscopy.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- First evidence of virus-like particles in the bacterial symbionts of Bryozoa.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges.PeerJ · 2021Article
- Viral ecogenomics across the Porifera.Microbiome · 2020Article
- A genomic view of trophic and metabolic diversity in clade-specific Lamellodysidea sponge microbiomes.Microbiome · 2020Article
- dsRNA-seq Reveals Novel RNA Virus and Virus-Like Putative Complete Genome Sequences from Hymeniacidon sp. Sponge.Microbes and environments · 2020Article
- Potential Interactions between Clade SUP05 Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria and Phages in Hydrothermal Vent Sponges.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Marine sponges host complex microbial consortia that vary in their abundance, diversity and stability amongst host species. While our understanding of sponge-microbe interactions has dramatically increased over the past decade, little is known about how sponges and their microbial symbionts interact with viruses, the most abundant entities in the ocean. In this study, we employed three transmission electron microscopy (TEM) preparation methods to provide the first comprehensive morphological assessment of sponge-associated viruses. The combined approaches revealed 50 different morphologies of viral-like particles (VLPs) represented across the different sponge species. VLPs were visualized within sponge cells, within the sponge extracellular mesohyl matrix, on the sponge ectoderm and within sponge-associated microbes. Non-enveloped, non-tailed icosahedral VLPs were the most commonly observed morphotypes, although tailed bacteriophage, brick-shaped, geminate and filamentous VLPs were also detected. Visualization of sponge-associated viruses using TEM has confirmed that sponges harbor not only diverse communities of microorganisms but also diverse communities of viruses.
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