Effects of sample handling and cultivation bias on the specificity of bacterial communities in keratose marine sponges

Effects of sample handling and cultivation bias on the specificity of bacterial communities in keratose marine sponges

Complex and distinct bacterial communities inhabit marine sponges and are believed to be essential to host survival, but our present-day inability to domesticate sponge symbionts in the laboratory hinders our access to the full metabolic breadth of these microbial consortia. We address bacterial cul...

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Main Authors: Cristiane C.P. Hardoim, Massimiliano eCardinale, Ana C.B. Cúcio, Ana I.S. Esteves, Gabriele eBerg, Joana R. Xavier, Cymon J. Cox, Rodrigo eCosta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Symbiosis
pyrosequencing
Microbial Diversity
holobiont
microbial cultivation
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00611/full

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