Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome

Kathrin Busch (), Beate M. Slaby, Wolfgang Bach, Antje Boetius, Ina Clefsen, Ana Colaço, Marie Creemers, Javier Cristobo, Luisa Federwisch, Andre Franke, Asimenia Gavriilidou, Andrea Hethke, Ellen Kenchington, Furu Mienis, Sadie Mills, Ana Riesgo, Pilar Ríos, Emyr Martyn Roberts, Detmer Sipkema, Lucía Pita, Peter J. Schupp, Joana Xavier, Hans Tore Rapp and Ute Hentschel ()
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Kathrin Busch: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Beate M. Slaby: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wolfgang Bach: University of Bremen
Antje Boetius: University of Bremen
Ina Clefsen: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Ana Colaço: University of the Açores, Rua Prof Frederico Machado
Marie Creemers: University of the Açores, Rua Prof Frederico Machado
Javier Cristobo: IEO-CSIC-Spanish Oceanographic Institute, Oceanographic Centre Gijón
Luisa Federwisch: AWI-Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Andre Franke: IKMB-Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology
Asimenia Gavriilidou: Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology
Andrea Hethke: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Ellen Kenchington: DFO-Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Furu Mienis: NIOZ-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Sadie Mills: NIWA-National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Ana Riesgo: MNCN-National Museum of Natural Sciences, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
Pilar Ríos: IEO-CSIC-Spanish Oceanographic Institute, Oceanographic Centre Gijón
Emyr Martyn Roberts: University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research
Detmer Sipkema: Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology
Lucía Pita: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Peter J. Schupp: University of Oldenburg
Joana Xavier: University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research
Hans Tore Rapp: University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research
Ute Hentschel: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Abstract In the deep ocean symbioses between microbes and invertebrates are emerging as key drivers of ecosystem health and services. We present a large-scale analysis of microbial diversity in deep-sea sponges (Porifera) from scales of sponge individuals to ocean basins, covering 52 locations, 1077 host individuals translating into 169 sponge species (including understudied glass sponges), and 469 reference samples, collected anew during 21 ship-based expeditions. We demonstrate the impacts of the sponge microbial abundance status, geographic distance, sponge phylogeny, and the physical-biogeochemical environment as drivers of microbiome composition, in descending order of relevance. Our study further discloses that fundamental concepts of sponge microbiology apply robustly to sponges from the deep-sea across distances of >10,000 km. Deep-sea sponge microbiomes are less complex, yet more heterogeneous, than their shallow-water counterparts. Our analysis underscores the uniqueness of each deep-sea sponge ground based on which we provide critical knowledge for conservation of these vulnerable ecosystems.

Date: 2022
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