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Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome

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  • Kathrin Busch

    (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)

  • Beate M. Slaby

    (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)

  • Wolfgang Bach

    (University of Bremen)

  • Antje Boetius

    (University of Bremen
    MPI-Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
    AWI-Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research)

  • Ina Clefsen

    (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)

  • Ana Colaço

    (University of the Açores, Rua Prof Frederico Machado)

  • Marie Creemers

    (University of the Açores, Rua Prof Frederico Machado
    MARBEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Avenue Jean Monnet)

  • Javier Cristobo

    (IEO-CSIC-Spanish Oceanographic Institute, Oceanographic Centre Gijón)

  • Luisa Federwisch

    (AWI-Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
    University of Bremen)

  • 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
    NHM-Natural History Museum of London, Department of Life Sciences)

  • 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
    Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge)

  • Detmer Sipkema

    (Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology)

  • Lucía Pita

    (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
    ICM-CSIC-Institute of Marine Sciences)

  • Peter J. Schupp

    (University of Oldenburg
    University of Oldenburg)

  • Joana Xavier

    (University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research
    University of Porto)

  • 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
    University of Kiel)

Abstract

In the deep ocean symbioses between microbes and invertebrates are emerging as key drivers of ecosystem health and services. We present a large-scale analysis of microbial diversity in deep-sea sponges (Porifera) from scales of sponge individuals to ocean basins, covering 52 locations, 1077 host individuals translating into 169 sponge species (including understudied glass sponges), and 469 reference samples, collected anew during 21 ship-based expeditions. We demonstrate the impacts of the sponge microbial abundance status, geographic distance, sponge phylogeny, and the physical-biogeochemical environment as drivers of microbiome composition, in descending order of relevance. Our study further discloses that fundamental concepts of sponge microbiology apply robustly to sponges from the deep-sea across distances of >10,000 km. Deep-sea sponge microbiomes are less complex, yet more heterogeneous, than their shallow-water counterparts. Our analysis underscores the uniqueness of each deep-sea sponge ground based on which we provide critical knowledge for conservation of these vulnerable ecosystems.

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  • 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 & , 2022. "Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-16, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-32684-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32684-4
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