Co-occurring nitrifying symbiont lineages are vertically inherited and widespread in marine sponges.

ABSTRACT: Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and nitrite-oxidizing 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 characterize two novel nitrifying symbiont lineages, Candidatus Nitrosokoinonia and Candidatus Nitrosymbion in the marine sponge Coscinoderma matthewsi using a combination of molecular tools, in situ visualization, and physiological rate measurements. Both represent a new genus in the ammonia-oxidizing archaeal class Nitrososphaeria and the nitrite-oxidizing bacterial order Nitrospirales, respectively. Furthermore, we show that larvae of

SUBMITTER: Glasl B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812461 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature