Nature Communications (Sep 2022)
Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome
- Kathrin Busch,
- Beate M. Slaby,
- Wolfgang Bach,
- Antje Boetius,
- Ina Clefsen,
- Ana Colaço,
- Marie Creemers,
- Javier Cristobo,
- Luisa Federwisch,
- Andre Franke,
- Asimenia Gavriilidou,
- Andrea Hethke,
- Ellen Kenchington,
- Furu Mienis,
- Sadie Mills,
- Ana Riesgo,
- Pilar Ríos,
- Emyr Martyn Roberts,
- Detmer Sipkema,
- Lucía Pita,
- Peter J. Schupp,
- Joana Xavier,
- Hans Tore Rapp,
- Ute Hentschel
Affiliations
- Kathrin Busch
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Beate M. Slaby
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Wolfgang Bach
- MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen
- Antje Boetius
- MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen
- Ina Clefsen
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Ana Colaço
- OKEANOS-Institute of Marine Research, University of the Açores, Rua Prof Frederico Machado
- Marie Creemers
- OKEANOS-Institute of Marine Research, University of the Açores, Rua Prof Frederico Machado
- Javier Cristobo
- IEO-CSIC-Spanish Oceanographic Institute, Oceanographic Centre Gijón
- Luisa Federwisch
- AWI-Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Andre Franke
- IKMB-Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology
- Asimenia Gavriilidou
- Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology
- Andrea Hethke
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Ellen Kenchington
- DFO-Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- Furu Mienis
- NIOZ-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
- Sadie Mills
- NIWA-National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
- Ana Riesgo
- MNCN-National Museum of Natural Sciences, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
- Pilar Ríos
- IEO-CSIC-Spanish Oceanographic Institute, Oceanographic Centre Gijón
- Emyr Martyn Roberts
- University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research
- Detmer Sipkema
- Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology
- Lucía Pita
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Peter J. Schupp
- ICBM-Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg
- Joana Xavier
- University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research
- Hans Tore Rapp
- University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research
- Ute Hentschel
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32684-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 16
Abstract
This study presents a large-scale analysis of microbial diversity in deep-sea sponges. They show that sponge microbial abundance status, geographic distance, sponge phylogeny and the physical-biogeochemical environment drive microbiome composition, in descending order of relevance. The uniqueness of each deep-sea sponge ground stresses the need for their strategic preservation.
