Bettina Glasl, Heidi M Luter, Katarina Damjanovic, Katharina Kitzinger, Anna J Mueller, Leonie Mahler, Joan Pamela Engelberts, Laura Rix, Jay T Osvatic, Bela Hausmann, Joana Séneca, Holger Daims, Petra Pjevac, Michael Wagner
Ammonia-oxidising archaea and nitrite-oxidising bacteria are common members of marine sponge microbiomes. They derive energy for carbon fixation and growth from nitrification - the aerobic oxidation of ammonia to nitrite and further to nitrate - and are proposed to play essential roles in the carbon and nitrogen cycling of sponge holobionts. In this study, we characterise two novel nitrifying symbiont lineages, Candidatus Nitrosokoinonia and Candidatus Nitrosymbion in the marine sponge Coscinoderma matthewsi using a combination of molecular tools, in situ visualisation, and physiological rate measurements...
April 27, 2024: ISME Journal