Microbial community structure of two freshwater sponges using Illumina MiSeq sequencing revealed high microbial diversity.

ABSTRACT: Sponges are primitive metazoans that are known to harbour diverse and abundant microbes. All over the world attempts are being made to exploit these microbes for their biotechnological potential to produce, bioactive compounds and antimicrobial peptides. However, the majority of the studies are focussed on the marine sponges and studies on the freshwater sponges have been neglected so far. To increase our understanding of the microbial community structure of freshwater sponges, microbiota of two fresh water sponges namely, Eunapius carteri and Corvospongilla lapidosa is explored for the first time using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology. Overall the microbial composition of these sponges comprises of 14 phyla and on an average, more than 2900 OTUs were obtained from C. lapidosa w

SUBMITTER: Gaikwad S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature