• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Compositional and quantitative insights into bacterial and archaeal communities of South Pacific deep-sea sponges (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida
  • Contributor: Steinert, Georg [Author]; Busch, Kathrin [Author]; Bayer, Kristina [Author]; Kodami, Sahar [Author]; Arbizu, Pedro M. [Author]; Kelly, Michelle [Author]; Mills, Sadie [Author]; Erpenbeck, Dirk [Author]; Dohrmann, Martin [Author]; Wörheide, Gert [Author]; Hentschel, Ute [Author]; Schupp, Peter J. [Author]
  • Published: Frontiers, 2020-04-24
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00716
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  • Description: In the present study, we profiled bacterial and archaeal communities from 13 phylogenetically diverse deep-sea sponge species (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida) from the South Pacific by 16S rRNA-gene amplicon sequencing. Additionally, the associated bacteria and archaea were quantified by real-time qPCR. Our results show that bacterial communities from the deep-sea sponges are mostly host-species specific similar to what has been observed for shallow-water demosponges. The archaeal deep-sea sponge community structures are different from the bacterial community structures in that they are almost completely dominated by a single family, which are the ammonia-oxidizing genera within the Nitrosopumilaceae. Remarkably, the archaeal communities are mostly specific to individual sponges (rather than sponge-species), and this observation applies to both hexactinellids and demosponges. Finally, archaeal 16s gene numbers, as detected by quantitative real-time PCR, were up to three orders of magnitude higher than in shallow-water sponges, highlighting the importance of the archaea for deep-sea sponges in general.
  • Access State: Open Access