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Testing the relationship between microbiome composition and flux of carbon and nutrients in Caribbean coral reef sponges.
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- Cryptic Interactions in a Marine Microcosm: Sponges Shape the Microbiome of a Resident Goby.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Genome-scale metabolic modelling reveals interactions and key roles of symbiont clades in a sponge holobiont.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Effects of sponge-to-sponge contact on the microbiomes of three spatially competing Caribbean coral reef species.MicrobiologyOpen · 2023Article
- Computational Metabolomics Tools Reveal Subarmigerides, Unprecedented Linear Peptides from the Marine Sponge HolobiontMarine drugs · 2022Article
- Depth effect on the prokaryotic community assemblage associated with sponges from different rocky reefs.PeerJ · 2022Article
- Marine sponges maintain stable bacterial communities between reef sites with different coral to algae cover ratios.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2021Article
- DNA-stable isotope probing (DNA-SIP) identifies marine sponge-associated bacteria actively utilizing dissolved organic matter (DOM).Environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- Subcellular view of host-microbiome nutrient exchange in sponges: insights into the ecological success of an early metazoan-microbe symbiosis.Microbiome · 2021Article
- Archaeal communities of low and high microbial abundance sponges inhabiting the remote western Indian Ocean island of Mayotte.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2021Article
- Differential processing of dissolved and particulate organic matter by deep-sea sponges and their microbial symbionts.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: a single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- Microbial symbionts and ecological divergence of Caribbean sponges: A new perspective on an ancient association.The ISME journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSponges are important suspension-feeding members of reef communities, with the collective capacity to overturn the entire water column on shallow Caribbean reefs every day. The sponge-loop hypothesis suggests that sponges take up dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and, via assimilation and shedding of cells, return carbon to the reef ecosystem as particulate organic carbon (POC). Sponges host complex microbial communities within their tissues that may play a role in carbon and nutrient cycling within the sponge holobiont. To investigate this relationship, we paired microbial community characterization (16S rRNA analysis, Illumina Mi-Seq platform) with carbon (DOC, POC) and nutrient (PO
resultsDistance-based linear modeling revealed weak relationships overall between symbiont structure and carbon and nutrient flux, suggesting that the observed differences in POC, DOC, PO
conclusionsCombined, these results indicate that microbiome structure is uncoupled from sponge carbon cycling and does not explain variation in DOC uptake among Caribbean coral reef sponges. Accordingly, differential DOC assimilation by sponge cells or stable microbiome components may ultimately drive carbon flux in the sponge holobiont.
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