ArticlePeerJ2021
Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- New insights into the microbiome of the deep-sea spongeMicrobial genomics · 2026Article
- Survival strategies for the microbiome in a vent-dwelling glass sponge from the middle Okinawa Trough.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Phage-induced disturbance of a marine sponge microbiome.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Decoupling of strain- and intrastrain-level interactions of microbiomes in a sponge holobiont.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Metagenomic Assessment of DNA Viral Diversity in Freshwater Sponges,Microorganisms · 2022Article
- An Interplay between Viruses and Bacteria Associated with the White Sea Sponges Revealed by Metagenomics.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Anti-Viral Applications of Marine Resources for COVID-19 Treatment: An Overview.Marine drugs · 2021Review
- OMICs, Epigenetics, and Genome Editing Techniques for Food and Nutritional Security.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Viruses play an essential role in shaping the structure and function of ecological communities. Marine sponges have the capacity to filter large volumes of 'virus-laden' seawater through their bodies and host dense communities of microbial symbionts, which are likely accessible to viral infection. However, despite the potential of sponges and their symbionts to act as viral reservoirs, little is known about the sponge-associated virome. Here we address this knowledge gap by analysing metagenomic and (meta-) transcriptomic datasets from several sponge species to determine what viruses are present and elucidate their predicted and expressed functionality. Sponges were found to carry diverse, abundant and active bacteriophages as well as eukaryotic viruses belonging to the Megavirales and
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