@phdthesis{Wehrl2006,
  author    = {Wehrl, Markus},
  title     = {Bakterielle Aufnahme, Selektivit{\"a}t und interne Prozessierung bei marinen Schw{\"a}mmen (Porifera)},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-21660},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Marine Schw{\"a}mme (Porifera) gelten als die evolution{\"a}r {\"a}ltesten Metazoen. Sie sind in allen Meeren verbreitet und tragen einen großen Anteil zur Invertebraten-Fauna bei. Ihrer Lebens-weise als Filtrierer entsprechend pumpen Schw{\"a}mme bis zu 23.000 l Seewasser Kg-1 Schwamm Tag-1. Das enthaltene Bakterioplankton wird mit hoher Effizienz ausgefiltert und dient als Nahrung. Gleichzeitig enthalten einige Schwammspezies eine sehr hohe Anzahl phylogenetisch diverser Bakterien extrazellul{\"a}r in der Mesohylmatrix, die bis zu 40\% der Gesamtbiomasse ausmachen. Die als Symbionten bezeichnete Bakteriengemeinschaft weist eine hochgradig spezifische phylogenetische Zusammensetzung auf, die bei unterschiedlichen Schwammspezies, jedoch nicht im Seewasser oder Sediment, gefunden wird. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertationsarbeit wurden unterschiedliche Muster der Bakterien-haltigkeit mariner Schw{\"a}mme durch Elektronenmikroskopie beschrieben. Die Gruppe der bakterienhaltigen Schw{\"a}mme wies eine hohe Anzahl von Mikroben im Mesohyl auf. Aufgrund der bakteriellen Verteilung wurde zwischen stark und intermedi{\"a}r bakterienhaltigen Spezies unterschieden. Stark bakterienhaltige Schw{\"a}mme zeigten eine gleichm{\"a}ßig dichte Verteilung der Mikroben im Mesohyl, die Bakterienkonzentrationen lagen bei 109 - 1010 Zel-len g-1 Schwamm. Intermedi{\"a}r bakterienhaltige Schw{\"a}mme enthielten lokale Anh{\"a}ufungen von Mikroben, die in allen Stellen des Tieres gefunden wurden. Die Zellzahlen lagen bei 108 - 109 Bakterien g-1 Schwamm. Die Gruppe der bakterienarmen Schw{\"a}mme wurde durch ein mikroskopisch bakterienfreies Mesohyl charakterisiert, die Bakterienkonzentrationen betrugen ~106 Zellen g-1 Schwamm und waren damit vergleichbar zu nat{\"u}rlichem Seewasser. In Korrelation zum Bakteriengehalt wurden anatomische Unterschiede des Gewebes beider Schwammgruppen beobachtet. Die bakterielle Aufnahme von Schw{\"a}mmen wurde an einzelnen Individuen in Filtra-tionsexperimenten untersucht. Es wurde die Aufnahme des „Futterbakteriums" Vibrio sp. SB177 und des schwammspezifischen Symbiontenkonsortiums gemessen. Die bakterien-haltigen Schw{\"a}mme Aplysina aerophoba und Chondrosia reniformis wiesen im Vergleich zu „Futterbakterien" eine sehr stark verminderte Aufnahme gegen{\"u}ber ihren eigenen Symbionten auf, bei A. aerophoba sank die Filtrationsrate von rn = 2,76 x 106 auf 5,47 x 104 Bakterien g-1 Schwamm h-1. Die bakterienarmen Schw{\"a}mme Dysidea avara und Tethya aurantium zeigten eine effiziente und undifferenzierte Aufnahme gegen{\"u}ber allen Mikroben. Das nur bei bak-terienhaltigen Schw{\"a}mmen gefundene Muster der stark verminderten Aufnahme von Symbi-onten ist statistisch signifikant. Untersuchungen zum Einfluss abdaubarer bakterieller Zell-wandproteine und der bakteriellen Flagelle erbrachten keine Hinweise auf eine Beteiligung dieser Faktoren am bakteriellen Filtrationsprozess der Schw{\"a}mme. Zur Untersuchung einer m{\"o}glichen Filtrationsselektivit{\"a}t gegen{\"u}ber bestimmten bak-teriellen Vertretern des Seewasser- und des Symbiontenkonsortiums wurden Filtrationsexperi-mente durchgef{\"u}hrt. Proben des Inkubationswassers wurde w{\"a}hrend des Experiments entnom-men und die phylogenetische Zusammensetzung der Konsortien mittels Denaturierender Gradienten Gel Elektrophorese (DGGE) untersucht. Die Banden wurden anhand der St{\"a}rke {\"u}ber den zeitlichen Verlauf klassifiziert. Von den anf{\"a}nglich 40 nachweisbaren Banden des Seewasserkonsortiums wurden nach 300 Minuten experimenteller Dauer eine als konstant, 18 als reduziert und 21 als verschwindend eingeordnet. F{\"u}r das Symbiontenkonsortium wurden von den initial 65 Banden nach 300 Minuten 30 Banden als konstant, 19 als reduziert und 16 als verschwindend klassifiziert. W{\"a}hrend f{\"u}r das Seewasserkonsortium eine Aufnahme fast aller bakterieller Phylotypen {\"u}berwog, unterlagen nur wenige Phylotypen des Symbionten-konsortiums einer starken Aufnahme. Durch Sequenzierung und phylogenetische Zuordnung repr{\"a}sentativer Banden wurde gezeigt, dass f{\"u}r die bakterielle Aufnahme keine Selektivit{\"a}t gegen{\"u}ber einer bestimmten phylogenetischen Abstammungslinie besteht. So wurden z. B. Phylotypen der Chloroflexi als konstant, reduziert, als auch verschwindend beurteilt. Die interne Prozessierung und der Transport aufgenommener Partikel und Bakterien im Mesohyl wurde mikroskopisch untersucht. A. aerophoba transportierte große Aggregate aufgenommener Latex Beads in speziellen Schwammzellgruppen durch das Mesohyl. Es konnte keine Abgabe der Beads in die extrazellul{\"a}re Matrix (ECM) beobachtet werden. D. avara transportierte einzelne Beads durch das Mesohyl, nach 300 Minuten wurden zahlreiche Beads in der ECM gefunden. Die bakterielle Aufnahme wurde an dem GFP-exprimierenden „Futterbakterium" Vibrio sp. MMW1 visualisiert. Die Bakterien wurden mit hoher Effizienz von A. aerophoba aufgenommen, konnten jedoch nicht in tieferen Mesohylbereichen nach-gewiesen werden, was auf eine z{\"u}gige Lyse der Zellen hindeutete. Fluoreszenzmarkierte Symbiontenzellen wurden nicht von A. aerophoba aber, in {\"U}bereinstimung mit den Filtrationsexperimenten, von dem bakterienarmen D. avara aufgenommen. Die Ergebnisse belegen, dass bakerienhaltige Schw{\"a}mme {\"u}ber einen komplexen Mechanismus der bakteriellen Aufnahme verf{\"u}gen, durch den zwischen Futterbakterien und Symbionten unterschieden wird. Schw{\"a}mme stellen deshalb ein interessantes Modellsystem zur Untersuchung von Mechanismen der generellen Phagozytose und der gleichzeitigen Tolerierung von symbiontischen Bakterienzellen im Gewebe dar.},
  subject      = {Meeresschw{\"a}mme},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{PimentelElardo2008,
  author    = {Pimentel Elardo, Sheila Marie},
  title     = {Novel anti-infective secondary metabolites and biosynthetic gene clusters from actinomycetes associated with marine sponges},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40463},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Marine sponges (Porifera) harbor diverse microbial communities within their mesohyl, among them representatives of the phylum Actinobacteria, commonly known as actinomycetes. Actinomycetes are prolific producers of pharmacologically important compounds and are responsible for producing the majority of antibiotics. The main aim of this Ph.D. study was to investigate the metabolic potential of the sponge-associated actinomycetes to produce novel anti-infective agents. The first aim was to cultivate actinomycetes derived from different marine sponges. 16S rDNA sequencing revealed that the strains belonged to diverse actinomycete genera such as Gordonia, Isoptericola, Micromonospora, Nocardiopsis, Saccharopolyspora and Streptomyces. Phylogenetic analyses and polyphasic characterization further revealed that two of these strains represent new species, namely Saccharopolyspora cebuensis strain SPE 10-1T (Pimentel-Elardo et al. 2008a) and Streptomyces axinellae strain Pol001T (Pimentel-Elardo et al. 2008b). Furthermore, secondary metabolite production of the actinomycete strains was investigated. The metabolites were isolated using a bioassay-guided purification scheme followed by structure elucidation using spectroscopic methods and subjected to an elaborate anti-infective screening panel. Several interesting compounds were isolated namely, the novel polyketides cebulactam A1 and A2 (Pimentel-Elardo et al. 2008c), a family of tetromycin compounds including novel derivatives, cyclodepsipeptide valinomycin, indolocarbazole staurosporine, diketopiperazine cycloisoleucylprolyl and butenolide. These compounds exhibited significant anti-parasitic as well as protease inhibitory activities. The third aim of this Ph.D. study was to identify biosynthetic gene clusters encoding for nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) and polyketide synthases (PKS) present in the actinomycete strains. Genomic library construction and sequencing revealed insights into the metabolic potential and biosynthetic pathways of selected strains. An interesting NRPS system detected in Streptomyces sp. strain Aer003 was found to be widely distributed in several sponge species, in an ascidian and in seawater and is postulated to encode for a large peptide molecule. Sequencing of the PKS gene cluster of Saccharopolyspora cebuensis strain SPE 10-1T allowed the prediction of the cebulactam biosynthetic pathway which utilizes 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid as the starter unit followed by successive condensation steps involving methylmalonyl extender units and auxiliary domains responsible for the polyketide assembly. In conclusion, this Ph.D. study has shown that diverse actinomycete genera are associated with marine sponges. The strains, two of them novel species, produced diverse chemical structures with interesting anti-infective properties. Lastly, the presence of biosynthetic gene clusters identified in this study substantiates the biosynthetic potential of actinomycetes to produce exploitable natural products and hopefully provides a sustainable supply of anti-infective compounds.},
  subject      = {Meeresschw{\"a}mme},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{MoitinhoeSilva2014,
  author    = {Moitinho e Silva, Lucas},
  title     = {Exploration of microbial diversity and function in Red Sea sponges by deep sequencing},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-103836},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Marine sponges (phylum Porifera) are simple, sessile, filter-feeder animals. Microbial symbionts are commonly found in the sponge internal tissue, termed the mesohyl. With respect to the microbial content, sponges are classified as either low-microbial abundance sponges (LMA), or high-microbial abundance sponges (HMA). The HMA/LMA dichotomy was explored in this Thesis using the Red Sea sponges as experimental models. A range of methods encompassing transmission electron microscopy, 16S rRNA gene deep sequencing, and metatranscriptomics was employed towards this goal. Here, particular emphasis was placed on the functional analysis of sponge microbiomes. The Red Sea sponges Stylissa carteri, Xestospongia testudinaria, Amphimedon ochracea, and Crella cyathophora were classified as HMA or LMA sponges using transmission electron microscopy. The diversity, specificity, and transcriptional activity of microbes associated with the sponges S. carteri (LMA) and X. testudinaria (HMA) and seawater were investigated using 16S rRNA amplicon pyrosequencing. The microbial composition of S. carteri was more similar to that of seawater than to that of X. testudinaria, which is consistent with the observation that the sequence data set of S. carteri contained many more possibly seawater sequences (~24\%) than the X. testudinaria data set (~6\%). The most abundant operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were shared between all three sources (S. carteri, X. testudinaria, seawater), while rare OTUs were unique to any given source. Despite this high degree of overlap, each sponge species contained its own specific microbiota. S. carteri microbiomes were enriched of Gammaproteobacteria and members of the genus Synechococcus and Nitrospira. Enriched members of X. testudinaria microbiomes included Chloroflexi, Deferribacteres, and Actinobacteria. The transcriptional activity of sponge-associated microorganisms was assessed by comparing 16S rRNA gene with transcript amplicons, which showed a good correlation. The microbial functional gene repertoire of sponges and seawater from the Red Sea (X. testudinaria, S. carteri) and the Mediterranean (Aplysina aerophoba, Dysidea avara) were investigated with the environmental microarray GeoChip 4. Amplicon sequencing was performed alongside in order to assess microbial diversity. The typical microbial diversity patterns characteristic of HMA (abundance of Gammaproteobacteria, Chloroflexi, Acidobacteria, Deferribacteres, and others) and LMA sponges (abundance of Alpha-, Beta-, Gammaproteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, and Bacteroidetes) were confirmed. The HMA/LMA dichotomy was stronger than any possible geographic pattern based on microbial diversity (amplicon) and functional genes (GeoChip). However upon inspection of individual genes detected by GeoChip, very few specific differences were discernible, including differences related to microbial ammonia oxidation, ammonification (higher gene abundance in sponges over seawater) as well as denitrification (lower gene abundance). Furthermore, a higher abundance of a gene, pcc, representative of archaeal autotrophic carbon fixation was noted in sponges over seawater. Thirdly, stress-related genes, in particular those related to radiation, were found in lower abundances in sponge microbiomes than in seawater. With the exception of few documented specific differences, the functional gene repertoire between the different sources appeared largely similar. The most actively expressed genes of S. carteri microbiomes were investigated with metatranscriptomics. Prokaryotic mRNA was enriched from sponge total RNA, sequenced using Illumina HiSeq technology, and annotated with the metagenomics Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology (MG-RAST) pipeline. High expression of archaeal ammonia oxidation and photosynthetic carbon fixation by members of the genus Synechococcus was detected. Functions related to stress response and membrane transporters were among the most highly expressed by S. carteri symbionts. Unexpectedly, gene functions related to methylotrophy were highly expressed by gammaproteobacterial symbionts. The presence of seawater-derived microbes is indicated by the phylogenetic proximity of organic carbon transporters to orthologs of members from the SAR11 clade. In summary, the most expressed functions of the S. carteri-associated microbial community were revealed and linked to the dominant taxonomic members of the microbiome. In conclusion, HMA and LMA Red Sea sponges were used as models to gain insights into relevant themes in sponge microbiology, i.e. diversity, specificity, and functional activities. Overall, my Thesis contributes to a better understanding of sponge-associated microbial communities, and the implications of this association to marine ecology.},
  subject      = {Meeresschw{\"a}mme},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Jadulco2002,
  author    = {Jadulco, Raquel C.},
  title     = {Isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive secondary metabolites from marine sponges and sponge-derived fungi},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-3565},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2002},
  abstract  = {Low-molecular mass natural products from bacteria, fungi, plants and marine organisms exhibit unique structural diversity which are of interest for the identification of new lead structures for medicinals and agrochemicals. In the search for bioactive compounds from marine sponges and sponge-associated fungi, this research work resulted to the isolation of twenty-six compounds, eight of which are new metabolites. The sponges were collected from the Indo-pacific regions, particularly those from Indonesian and Philippine waters, as well as those from the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Elba in Italy. A combination of the chemically- and biologically-driven approach for drug discovery was employed, wherein extracts were screened for antibacterial, antifungal and cytotoxic activities. In addition to the bioassay-guided approach to purify the compounds responsible for the activity of the extract, TLC, UV and MS were also used to isolate the chemically most interesting substances. Hence, purified compounds which are not responsible for the initial bioscreening activity may have a chance to be evaluated for other bioactivities. Enumerated below are the compounds which have been isolated and structurally elucidated and whose bioactivities have been further characterized. 1. The extract of the fungus Cladosporium herbarum associated with the sponge Callyspongia aerizusa afforded seven structurally related polyketides, including two new twelve-membered macrolides: pandangolide 3 and 4, and a new acetyl congener of the previously isolated 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furoic acid. The two furoic acid analogues isolated were found to be responsible for the antimicrobial activity of the extract. The isolation of the known phytotoxin Cladospolide B from Cladosporium herbarum, which was originally known from Cladosporium cladosporioides and C. tenuissimum, indicates the possibility that Cladospolide B may be a chemotaxonomic marker of particular Cladosporium species. 2. The extract of the fungus Curvularia lunata associated with the Indonesian sponge Niphates olemda yielded three compounds, namely the new antimicrobially-active anthraquinone lunatin, the known bisanthraquinone cytoskyrin A, and the known plant hormone abscisic acid. The co-occurrence of the two structurally-related anthraquinones suggests that the monomeric lunatin may be a precursor in the biosynthesis of the bisanthraquinone cytoskyrin A. 3. The fungus Penicillium spp. associated with the Mediterranean sponge Axinella verrucosa yielded six compounds, namely the known antifungal griseofulvin and its less active dechloro analogue; the known toxin oxaline; and the known cytotoxic metabolite communesin B and its two new congeners communesin C and D. The new communesins were less active than communesin B in the brine-shrimp lethality test. 4. An unidentified fungus which was also isolated from the same Mediterranean sponge Axinella verrucosa as Penicillium spp. yielded the known compound monocerin which has been reported to possess phytotoxic and insecticidal activities. 5. The fungus Aspergillus flavus associated with the Philippine sponge Hyrtios aff. reticulatus yielded the known toxin a-cyclopiazonic acid. 6. The Indonesian sponge Agelas nakamurai yielded four bromopyrrole alkaloids namely the new compound 4-bromo-pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid, and the known compounds: 4-bromo-pyrrole-2-carboxamide, mukanadin B and mukanadin C. All of the four compounds except mukanadin B were found to be antimicrobially-active. Bromopyrrole alkaloids are well-known metabolites of the genus Agelas and are proven to play an important role in the chemical defense of the sponge against predation from fishes. 7. The Indonesian sponge Jaspis splendens yielded three known substances which are known for their antiproliferative activities, namely the depsipeptides jaspamide (jasplakinolide), and its derivatives jaspamide B and jaspamide C.},
  subject      = {Meeresschw{\"a}mme},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Horn2017,
  author    = {Horn, Hannes},
  title     = {Analysis and interpretation of (meta-)genomic data from host-associated microorganisms},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-152035},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Host-microbe interactions are the key to understand why and how microbes inhabit specific environments. With the scientific fields of microbial genomics and metagenomics, evolving on an unprecedented scale, one is able to gain insights in these interactions on a molecular and ecological level. The goal of this PhD thesis was to make (meta-)genomic data accessible, integrate it in a comparative manner and to gain comprehensive taxonomic and functional insights into bacterial strains and communities derived from two different environments: the phyllosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana and the mesohyl interior of marine sponges. This thesis focused first on the de novo assembly of bacterial genomes. A 5-step protocol was developed, each step including a quality control. The examination of different assembly software in a comparative way identified SPAdes as most suitable. The protocol enables the user to chose the best tailored assembly. Contamination issues were solved by an initial filtering of the data and methods normally used for the binning of metagenomic datasets. This step is missed in many published assembly pipelines. The described protocol offers assemblies of high quality ready for downstream analysis. Subsequently, assemblies generated with the developed protocol were annotated and explored in terms of their function. In a first study, the genome of a phyllosphere bacterium, Williamsia sp. ARP1, was analyzed, offering many adaptions to the leaf habitat: it can deal with temperature shifts, react to oxygen species, produces mycosporins as protection against UV-light, and is able to uptake photosynthates. Further, its taxonomic position within the Actinomycetales was infered from 16S rRNA and comparative genomics showing the close relation between the genera Williamsia and Gordonia. In a second study, six sponge-derived actinomycete genomes were investigated for secondary metabolism. By use of state-of-the-art software, these strains exhibited numerous gene clusters, mostly linked to polykethide synthases, non-ribosomal peptide synthesis, terpenes, fatty acids and saccharides. Subsequent predictions on these clusters offered a great variety of possible produced compounds with antibiotic, antifungal or anti-cancer activity. These analysis highlight the potential for the synthesis of natural products and the use of genomic data as screening toolkit. In a last study, three sponge-derived and one seawater metagenomes were functionally compared. Different signatures regarding the microbial composition and GC-distribution were observed between the two environments. With a focus on bacerial defense systems, the data indicates a pronounced repertoire of sponge associated bacteria for bacterial defense systems, in particular, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, restriction modification system, DNA phosphorothioation and phage growth limitation. In addition, characterizing genes for secondary metabolite cluster differed between sponge and seawater microbiomes. Moreover, a variety of Type I polyketide synthases were only found within the sponge microbiomes. With that, metagenomics are shown to be a useful tool for the screening of secondary metabolite genes. Furthermore, enriched defense systems are highlighted as feature of sponge-associated microbes and marks them as a selective trait.},
  subject      = {Bakterien},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Gloeckner2013,
  author    = {Gl{\"o}ckner, Volker},
  title     = {Untersuchungen zur Diversit{\"a}t, Abundanz und vertikalen Weitergabe von Bakterien in marinen Schw{\"a}mmen},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-79327},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Marine Schw{\"a}mme (Phylum Porifera) geh{\"o}ren mit ihrem ersten Auftreten im Pr{\"a}kambrium vor ungef{\"a}hr 580 Millionen Jahren zu den {\"a}ltesten Vertretern der Metazoen weltweit. {\"A}hnlich lange leben sie wahrscheinlich schon in Symbiose mit Mikroorganismen. In der vorliegenden Doktorarbeit soll der karibische Schwamm Ectyoplasia ferox als Modellsystem zur Erforschung der Schwamm-assoziierten mikrobiellen Konsortien, deren Weitergabe und Interaktionen mit dem Schwamm, vorgestellt werden. Mit Hilfe von 16S rRNA-Genbanken sowie der denaturierenden Gradienten-Gelelektrophorese (DGGE) konnte gezeigt werden, dass Symbionten aus sechs der in E. ferox gefundenen acht Phyla sowie der „sponge-associated unclassified lineage" SAUL vertikal an die n{\"a}chste Schwammgeneration weitergegeben werden. Mittels phylogenetischer Analysen wurden insgesamt 21 „vertical transmission" (VT) Cluster identifiziert, von denen 19 in „sponge specific" Cluster (SSC) bzw. „sponge coral" Clustern (SCC) lagen. Daraus kann man schließen, dass ein Großteil des mikrobiellen Konsortiums von E. ferox {\"u}ber die reproduktiven Stadien weitergegeben wird. Auch konnten zwei Cyanobakterien identifiziert werden, die nicht in den reproduktiven Stadien vorhanden waren und h{\"o}chstwahrscheinlich horizontal aus dem umgebenden Meerwasser aufgenommen wurden. Eine Reduzierung von 50\% der Symbionten im Mesohyl nach dem „spawning" zeigte erstmalig experimentell auf, dass Schwammsymbionten aus dem Schwamm in das umgebende Meerwasser gelangen k{\"o}nnen. In dieser Arbeit wurde zum ersten Mal der „presence vs. activity"-Vergleich zur Feststellung der metabolischen Aktivit{\"a}t von Bakterien auf die DGGE-Methode {\"u}bertragen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass die meisten mikrobiellen Symbionten im Adult-Schwamm, Embryo- sowie Larvalstadium metabolisch aktiv waren. Erste Versuche die Anzahl von Symbionten in den Larven von E. ferox mittels Antibiotika zu reduzieren, verliefen positiv. So wiesen die mit Antibiotika behandelten Larven in der DGGE eine deutliche Reduzierung der Bandenintensit{\"a}t auf. Die Verf{\"u}gbarkeit aller reproduktiver Stadien von E. ferox sowie die M{\"o}glichkeit die Larven im Labor experimentell zu manipulieren, machen E. ferox zu einem geeigneten Modellschwamm f{\"u}r zuk{\"u}nftige Studien bez{\"u}glich der vertikalen Weitergabe von Symbionten.},
  subject      = {Meeresschw{\"a}mme},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Angermeier2011,
  author    = {Angermeier, Hilde Gabriele},
  title     = {Molecular and ecological investigations of Caribbean sponge diseases},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-56855},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {W{\"a}hrend gewinnbringende Assoziationen von Schw{\"a}mmen mit Mikroorganismen in den letzten Jahren viel Aufmerksamkeit erhalten haben, wurde weit weniger in die Interaktion von Schw{\"a}mmen mit m{\"o}glicherweise pathogenen Mikroben investiert. Somit war es das Ziel dieser Studie zwei ausgew{\"a}hlte Karibische Schwammkrankheiten namens „Sponge Orange Band" und „Sponge White Patch" mittels {\"o}kologischer und molekularer Methoden zu untersuchen. Die Sponge Orange Band (SOB) Erkrankung bef{\"a}llt den bedeutenden karibischen Fass-Schwamm Xestospongia muta, der zu den bakterienhaltigen (HMA) Schw{\"a}mmen gez{\"a}hlt wird, w{\"a}hrend die Sponge White Patch (SWP) Erkrankung den h{\"a}ufig vorkommenden Seil-Schwamm Amphimedon compressa betrifft, der zu den bakterienarmen (LMA) Schw{\"a}mmen geh{\"o}rt. F{\"u}r beide Karibischen Schwammkrankheiten konnte ich einen Krankheitsverlauf beschreiben, der mit massiver Gewebszerst{\"o}rung und dem Verlust charakteristischer mikrobieller Signaturen einhergeht. Obwohl ich zeigen konnte, dass zus{\"a}tzliche Bakterienarten die gebleichten Schwammbereiche kolonisieren, lieferten meine Infektionsversuche in beiden F{\"a}llen keinen Beweis f{\"u}r die Beteiligung eines mikrobiellen Pathogens als Krankheitserreger. Somit liegen die eigentlichen Ausl{\"o}ser der Erkrankungen Sponge Orange Band als auch Sponge White Patch noch immer im Dunkeln.},
  subject      = {Meeresschw{\"a}mme},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AbdelmohsenYangHornetal.2014,
  author    = {Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan and Yang, Chen and Horn, Hannes and Hajjar, Dina and Ravasi, Timothy and Hentschel, Ute},
  title     = {Actinomycetes from Red Sea Sponges: Sources for Chemical and Phylogenetic Diversity},
  doi       = {10.3390/md12052771},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112882},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {The diversity of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges collected off Fsar Reef (Saudi Arabia) was investigated in the present study. Forty-seven actinomycetes were cultivated and phylogenetically identified based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing and were assigned to 10 different actinomycete genera. Eight putatively novel species belonging to genera Kocuria, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, and Rhodococcus were identified based on sequence similarity values below 98.2\% to other 16S rRNA gene sequences available in the NCBI database. PCR-based screening for biosynthetic genes including type I and type II polyketide synthases (PKS-I, PKS-II) as well as nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) showed that 20 actinomycete isolates encoded each at least one type of biosynthetic gene. The organic extracts of nine isolates displayed bioactivity against at least one of the test pathogens, which were Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, fungi, human parasites, as well as in a West Nile Virus protease enzymatic assay. These results emphasize that marine sponges are a prolific resource for novel bioactive actinomycetes with potential for drug discovery.},
  subject      = {Meeresschw{\"a}mme},
  language  = {en}
}