ArticleThe ISME journal2022
Harnessing solar power: photoautotrophy supplements the diet of a low-light dwelling sponge.
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- Species-specific relationships between deep sea sponges and their symbiotic Nitrosopumilaceae.The ISME journal · 2023Article
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- Microbiome diversity and metabolic capacity determines the trophic ecology of the holobiont in Caribbean sponges.ISME communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
The ability of organisms to combine autotrophy and heterotrophy gives rise to one of the most successful nutritional strategies on Earth: mixotrophy. Sponges are integral members of shallow-water ecosystems and many host photosynthetic symbionts, but studies on mixotrophic sponges have focused primarily on species residing in high-light environments. Here, we quantify the contribution of photoautotrophy to the respiratory demand and total carbon diet of the sponge Chondrilla caribensis, which hosts symbiotic cyanobacteria and lives in low-light environments. Although the sponge is net heterotrophic at 20 m water depth, photosynthetically fixed carbon potentially provides up to 52% of the holobiont's respiratory demand. When considering the total mixotrophic diet, photoautotrophy contributed an estimated 7% to total daily carbon uptake. Visualization of inorganic
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