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) …

Cyanobacteria have dominated marine environments and have been reef builders on Earth
for more than three million years (myr). Cyanobacteria still play an essential role in modern …

The central aims of many host or environmental microbiome studies are to elucidate factors
associated with microbial community compositions and to relate microbial features to …

Marine sponges often contain diverse and abundant communities of microorganisms
including bacteria, archaea and eukaryotic microbes. Numerous 16S rRNA‐based studies …

A total of 27 strains of Oculatella were isolated, characterized and sequenced, and analysed
phylogenetically with an additional environmental clone from the Atacama Desert and 10 …

Abstract RuBisCO (ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) is one the most
abundant enzymes on Earth. Virtually all food webs depend on its activity to supply fixed …

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

A total of 48 strains of thin, filamentous cyanobacteria in the Synechococcales were studed
by sequencing 16S rRNA, rpoC1, and rbcLX gene fragments. A subset of these were …

Cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus are major contributors to global primary
productivity and are found in a wide range of aquatic ecosystems. This Synechococcus …

An unusual species of Leptolyngbya was isolated from tree bark by Marie Takačová in 1983.
Originally it was considered to be a Lyngbya species, but since revision of the Oscillatoriales …