5 results match your criteria: "RD3 Marine Microbiology and Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel[Affiliation]"

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 of MOX symbionts in hosts from a group previously assumed to have low microbial abundances.

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A Gram-stain-positive, non-endospore-forming actinobacterium (ARP1T) was isolated from the phyllosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence phylogeny strain ARP1T was placed into the genus Williamsia and the closest related species were Williamsia phyllosphaerae (98.5 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Williamsia deligens (98.

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Hologenome analysis of two marine sponges with different microbiomes.

BMC Genomics

February 2016

KAUST Environmental Epigenetic Program (KEEP), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Background: Sponges (Porifera) harbor distinct microbial consortia within their mesohyl interior. We herein analysed the hologenomes of Stylissa carteri and Xestospongia testudinaria, which notably differ in their microbiome content.

Results: Our analysis revealed that S.

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Draft genome of the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere bacterium, Williamsia sp. ARP1.

Stand Genomic Sci

January 2016

Department of Botany II, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 3, D-97082 Würzburg, Germany ; GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, RD3 Marine Microbiology and Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany.

The Gram-positive actinomycete Williamsia sp. ARP1 was originally isolated from the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere. Here we describe the general physiological features of this microorganism together with the draft genome sequence and annotation.

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Mining Genomes of Three Marine Sponge-Associated Actinobacterial Isolates for Secondary Metabolism.

Genome Announc

October 2015

Department of Botany II, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of three actinobacterial isolates, Micromonospora sp. RV43, Rubrobacter sp. RV113, and Nocardiopsis sp.

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