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Marine Sponge Craniella australiensis-Associated Bacterial Diversity

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Sponge-associated bacterial symbionts

Definition

Sponge: animals of the phylum Porifera.

Symbionts: living in symbiosis with another organism or each other.

Metagenomics: analysis of environmental genomic DNA.

Introduction

Marine sponges are benthic, sessile, and filter feeding, simplest form of multicellular ancient metazoan group, having an outstanding importance as a living fossil record dating back over 600 Ma. In general, sponges are classified into three different groups, namely, Calcarea, Hexactinellida, and Demospongiae (Brusca and Brusca 2002). The group Demospongiae is also called as demosponges. They encompass 95 % of the ca. 5,500 all known sponge species that have so far been described. Marine sponges inhabit in all the oceans in the world regardless of extreme temperatures. They appear in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Sponges can be found hundreds of meters under sea level but mostly are found in 5–50 m deep. Sponges and their bacterial symbionts are...

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  1. Marine Biotechnology Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Ramasamy Anbuchezhian & Zhiyong Li

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    Karen E. Nelson

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Anbuchezhian, R., Li, Z. (2013). Marine Sponge Craniella australiensis-Associated Bacterial Diversity. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_604-2

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