Marine organisms from deep-sea environments have attracted considerable attention in drug discovery because they produce structurally diverse natural products. However, Norwegian deep-sea ecosystems r...
Microbial phytases are crucial to organic phosphorus mineralization in marine phosphorus cycle, however, phytases from deep-sea bacteria remain poorly characterized. Here, we isolated and cultured a p...
Despite receiving significant interest from the biological and engineering communities, several questions about the underlying reasons for the form of the deep-sea sponge Venus flower basket (Euplecte...
Microbacterium sp. HM-570 (16S rDNA sequence similarity 99.03% with the closest species Microbacterium lacus A5E-52T) is a sponge-associated bacterium isolated from deep-sea sponge, collected at the H...
Glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) are key habitat-forming organisms in deep-sea ecosystems, yet their diversity and distribution remains poorly understood. This work presents the first comprehe...
Seamount ecosystems are increasingly exposed to rapid oceanographic change, including warming waters, declining oxygen concentrations, and the upward migration of carbonate saturation horizons. Togeth...
Sponges are important members of shallow-water, benthic ecosystems, where they often rely on their microbial symbionts to acquire organic or inorganic carbon. Sponges are also found in the deep sea, h...
The marine environment of the Amathole region, located in the central part of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province near East London on the southeast coast, is characterized by a narrow continental she...
The Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (INVEMAR), in partnership with the Universidad del Valle (UV), Universidad tecnológica del Chocó (UTCH) and the community councils of Cupica and Los...