The recognition that all macroorganisms live in symbiotic association with microbial
communities has opened up a new field in biology. Animals, plants, and algae are now …

Marine sponges often contain diverse and abundant microbial communities, including
bacteria, archaea, microalgae, and fungi. In some cases, these microbial associates …

The subject of this review is the biodiversity of marine sponges and associated microbes
which have been reported to produce therapeutically important compounds, along with the …

The deep-sea benthic community at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic) is a highly
food limited system. The annual input of sedimenting phytodetritus, which reaches the sea …

We evaluated selective feeding in hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata by comparing
ingested prey species with their availability at 2 sites in the SW Dominican Republic …

Background Nitrogen, a component of many bio-molecules, is essential for growth and
development of all organisms. Most nitrogen exists in the atmosphere, and utilisation of this …

Mass mortality events are increasing dramatically in all coastal marine environments.
Determining the underlying causes of mass mortality events has proven difficult in the past …

Complex microbiomes reside in marine sponges and consist of diverse microbial taxa,
including functional guilds that may contribute to host metabolism and coastal marine …

To investigate the importance of symbiont‐derived nutrition to host sponges, we coupled
manipulative shading experiments with stable isotope analyses of isolated symbiont and …

Sponges can host abundant and diverse communities of symbiotic microorganisms. In this
chapter, we review recent work in the area of sponge–microbe symbioses, focusing on (1) …