High similarity in the microbiota of cold-water sponges of the Genus Mycale from two different geographical areas

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: César A. Cárdenas, Marcelo González-Aravena, Alejandro Font, Jon T. Hestetun, Eduardo Hajdu, Nicole Trefault, Maja Malmberg, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018
• Subjects: Porifera; 16S rRNA; High throughput sequencing; Antarctica; Subantarctic; Magallanes; Medicine; R; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4935; https://doaj.org/article/11c77001a925477983085058e4f01b01

Sponges belonging to genus Mycale are common and widely distributed across the oceans and represent a significant component of benthic communities in term of their biomass, which in many species is largely composed by bacteria. However, the microbial communities associated with Mycale species inhabi...