Nature Communications (Apr 2019)
The sponge microbiome within the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity
Abstract
Here the authors holistically examine prokaryote communities associated with diverse coral reef hosts, including sponges, nudibranchs, sea cucumbers, and corals. The results show that sponges have a relatively low diversity of prokaryotes, most of which are shared across a wide range of host taxa rather than being sponge-specific.