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    Pyrosequencing reveals highly diverse and species-specific microbial communities in sponges from the Red Sea

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    Authors
    Lee, Onon
    Wang, Yong
    Yang, Jiangke
    Lafi, Feras Fawzi
    Al-Suwailem, Abdulaziz M.
    Qian, Pei-Yuan cc
    KAUST Department
    Center for Desert Agriculture
    Coastal and Marine Resources Core Lab
    Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC)
    Desert Agriculture Initiative
    KAUST Global Partnership Program
    OCRF- Special Academic Partnership
    KAUST Grant Number
    SA-C0040/UK-C0016
    Date
    2010-11-18
    Online Publication Date
    2010-11-18
    Print Publication Date
    2011-04
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561636
    
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    Marine sponges are associated with a remarkable array of microorganisms. Using a tag pyrosequencing technology, this study was the first to investigate in depth the microbial communities associated with three Red Sea sponges, Hyrtios erectus, Stylissa carteri and Xestospongia testudinaria. We revealed highly diverse sponge-associated bacterial communities with up to 1000 microbial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and richness estimates of up to 2000 species. Altogether, 26 bacterial phyla were detected from the Red Sea sponges, 11 of which were absent from the surrounding sea water and 4 were recorded in sponges for the first time. Up to 100 OTUs with richness estimates of up to 300 archaeal species were revealed from a single sponge species. This is by far the highest archaeal diversity ever recorded for sponges. A non-negligible proportion of unclassified reads was observed in sponges. Our results demonstrated that the sponge-associated microbial communities remained highly consistent in the same sponge species from different locations, although they varied at different degrees among different sponge species. A significant proportion of the tag sequences from the sponges could be assigned to one of the sponge-specific clusters previously defined. In addition, the sponge-associated microbial communities were consistently divergent from those present in the surrounding sea water. Our results suggest that the Red Sea sponges possess highly sponge-specific or even sponge-species-specific microbial communities that are resistant to environmental disturbance, and much of their microbial diversity remains to be explored. © 2011 International Society for Microbial Ecology All rights reserved.
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    We thank HC Chung, YH Wong, M Li and JP Ren from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), D Lau from Baptist University of Hong Kong and the technical team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for technical help during sample collection. We also thank Professor Rob von Soest, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, for identification of sponges, and HC Chung, K Cheng and YK Tam, HKUST, for assistance in nutrient analysis. We are grateful to Professor MW Taylor, University of Auckland, for providing an ARB database containing the alignment of all sponge-derived sequences for comparison. This publication is based on the work supported by an award (SA-C0040/UK-C0016) made by KAUST to P-Y Qian.
    Publisher
    Springer Nature
    Journal
    The ISME Journal
    DOI
    10.1038/ismej.2010.165
    PubMed ID
    21085196
    PubMed Central ID
    PMC3105750
    Additional Links
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105750
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    10.1038/ismej.2010.165
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