Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing s...
Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Sponges host a remarkable diversity of microbial symbionts, however, the benefit their microbes provide is rarely understood. Here, we describe two new sponge species from deep-sea asphalt seeps and show that they live in a nutritional symbiosis with methane-oxidizing (MOX) bacteria. Metagenomics and imaging analyses revealed unusually high amounts...
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Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts
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TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_uu_382816
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_uu_382816
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1751-7362,1751-7370
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1751-7370
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10.1038/s41396-019-0346-7
