Microbiome of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri shares compositional and functional similarities with marine sponges

We used high-throughput Illumina sequencing of both 16S rRNA gene amplicons and shotgun metagenomes to test three hypotheses about the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri: 1) this species harbors bacterial communities that are distinct from both ambient water and adjacent biofilms 2) these sponge-associated microbial features are conserved across ecologically similar but geographically isolated sponge populations and 3) the freshwater sponge microbiome is enriched in many of the same symbiont-associated genetic features that characterize marine sponges.

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Instrument Illumina MiSeq; NextSeq 500; ILLUMINA
Publisher Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access service; ELIXIR-ENA
Publication Year 2024
OpenAccess true
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Discipline Marine Science
Spatial Coverage (-123.934W, 48.440S, -123.719E, 49.070N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-07-14T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z