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Article Dans Une Revue FEMS Microbiology Ecology Année : 2023

A comparison of free-living and sponge-associated bacterial communities from a remote oceanic island with a focus on calcareous sponges

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Calcareous sponges are an often overlooked element of sponge communities. In contrast to most other sponges, calcareous sponges produce calcium carbonate spicules, as opposed to the siliceous spicules of most sponges. Here, we investigated bacterial communities of 17 sponge species, including type and paratype specimens of recently described calcareous species, sampled off the remote island of Rodrigues, in the Indian Ocean. The main axis of variation in a PCO analysis of all samples separated non-calcareous sponge species including Axinyssa aplysinoides, Cinachyrella aff. australiensis, Petrosia seychellensis, Ircinia aff. variabilis, Spongia ceylonensis, Plakinastrella aff. clipptertonensis, Agelas aff. ceylonesis, Agelas aff. Mauritiana, and Hyrtios erectus from calcareous sponges, the non-calcareous Biemna tubulata, sediment and seawater. Overall, the bacterial communities of calcareous sponges revealed unique prokaryotic profiles with low abundances of several bacterial phyla, and relatively high abundances of other taxa e.g., the phyla Fibrobacterota, Proteobacteria, and SAR324 clade, the class Alphaproteobacteria and orders Cytophagales and Cyanobacteriales, although there was considerable variation among species. Calcareous sponges also had a high dominance of unknown bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Considering the unique nature of these communities, further studies are needed to better understand the environmental and ecological drivers of calcareous sponge-associated bacterial communities and their relevance as potential sources of novel microbes of biotechnological interest.
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hal-04148841 , version 1 (04-07-2023)

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Daniel Francis Richard Cleary, V. Oliveira, N. C. M. Gomes, Anne Bialecki, Nicole Joy de Voogd. A comparison of free-living and sponge-associated bacterial communities from a remote oceanic island with a focus on calcareous sponges. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2023, 99 (3), ⟨10.1093/femsec/fiad014⟩. ⟨hal-04148841⟩
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