Differential processing of dissolved and particulate organic matter by deep-sea sponges and their microbial symbionts

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Bart, Martijn C, de Kluijver, Anna, Hoetjes, Sean, Absalah, Samira, Mueller, Benjamin, Kenchington, Ellen, Rapp, Hans Tore, de Goeij, Jasper M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: deep-se sponges; particulate organic matter; POM; microbiome; European Union (EU); Horizon 2020; Grant Agreement No 679849; Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic: an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable exploitation; SponGES; Canada; Norway; Bergen; Bedford; Beazley; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4279098; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74670-0

ABSTRACT Deep-sea sponges create hotspots of biodiversity and biological activity in the otherwise barren deep-sea. However, it remains elusive how sponge hosts and their microbial symbionts acquire and process food in these food-limited environments. Therefore, we traced the processing (i.e. assimi...