ArticleNature ecology & evolution2019
Vertical transmission of sponge microbiota is inconsistent and unfaithful.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Applying evolutionary theory to understand host-microbiome evolution.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
- Disruption of host-associated and benthic microbiota affects reproductive output and settlement of a habitat-forming macroalga.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- From Sea to Freshwater: Shared and Unique Microbial Traits in Sponge Associated Prokaryotic Communities.Current microbiology · 2025Article
- Symbiont Community Changes Confer Fitness Benefits for Larvae in a Vertically Transmitting Coral.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Evidence of habitat specificity in sponge microbiomes from Antarctica.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Habitat specificity modulates the bacterial biogeographic patterns in the Southern Ocean.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Decoupling of strain- and intrastrain-level interactions of microbiomes in a sponge holobiont.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Dynamics, diversity, and roles of bacterial transmission modes during the first asexual life stages of the freshwater sponge Spongilla lacustris.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- High microbiome and metabolome diversification in coexisting sponges with different bio-ecological traits.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Microbiome changes through the ontogeny of the marine sponge Crambe crambe.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Multiomics integration for the function of bacterial outer membrane vesicles in the larval settlement of marine sponges.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Selective enrichment of founding reproductive microbiomes allows extensive vertical transmission in a fungus-farming termite.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Phylogenetic signal in gut microbial community rather than in rodent metabolic traits.National science review · 2023Article
- Whole genome sequence of the deep-sea sponge Geodia barretti (Metazoa, Porifera, Demospongiae).G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- Three species of axenic mosquito larvae recruit a shared core of bacteria in a common garden experiment.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Species-specific relationships between deep sea sponges and their symbiotic Nitrosopumilaceae.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Maternal provisioning of an obligate symbiont in a sponge.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
Co-evolutionary theory predicts that if beneficial microbial symbionts improve host fitness, they should be faithfully transmitted to offspring. More recently, the hologenome theory of evolution predicts resemblance between parent and offspring microbiomes and high partner fidelity between host species and their vertically transmitted microbes. Here, we test these ideas in multiple coexisting host species with highly diverse microbiota, leveraging known parent-offspring pairs sampled from eight species of wild marine sponges (Porifera). We found that the processes governing vertical transmission were both neutral and selective. A neutral model was a better fit to larval (R
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