Testing the relationship between microbiome composition and flux of carbon and nutrients in Caribbean coral reef sponges
Abstract Background Sponges are important suspension-feeding members of reef communities, with the collective capacity to overturn the entire water column on shallow Caribbean reefs every day. The sponge-loop hypothesis suggests that sponges take up dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and, via assimilati...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Microbiome |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-019-0739-x |