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SUBMITTER: Webster NS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2936111 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Webster Nicole S NS Taylor Michael W MW Behnam Faris F Lücker Sebastian S Rattei Thomas T Whalan Stephen S Horn Matthias M Wagner Michael M
Environmental microbiology 20090929 8
Marine sponges contain complex bacterial communities of considerable ecological and biotechnological importance, with many of these organisms postulated to be specific to sponge hosts. Testing this hypothesis in light of the recent discovery of the rare microbial biosphere, we investigated three Australian sponges by massively parallel 16S rRNA gene tag pyrosequencing. Here we show bacterial diversity that is unparalleled in an invertebrate host, with more than 250,000 sponge-derived sequence ta ...[more]