Many animals benefit from microbial symbionts that aid digestion, supply essential nutrients, or provide defense. When this dependence becomes obligate, as in gutless marine oligochaetes that have lost both digestive and excretory systems and rely entirely on their bacterial partners for nutrition and recycling of wast...
A. Mankowski, Manuel Kleiner, C. Erséus et al.· Science Advances· 0 citations
Bacteria of the family Endozoicomonadaceae are widely associated with marine animals, yet their in situ metabolism remains mostly unknown. Genomic studies suggest that members of this family engage in extensive metabolic exchange with their hosts, ranging from nutrient provision in mutualistic sponge and coral symbiose...
Malin Stüwe, Benedikt Geier, D. Michellod et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
It is revealed that a globally distributed clade of symbiotic SRB has a conserved core metabolism that diverges from free-living relatives, and these endosymbionts retain key traits of SRB such as sulfate reduction, complete oxidation of acetate to CO2, amino acid degradation for nitrogen acquisition, and transport of...
G. D'Angelo, Manuel Kleiner, A. Mankowski et al.· The ISME Journal· 0 citations
A wide range of microorganisms produce storage biopolymer polyhydroxyalkanoates (sPHAs) as carbon and energy reserves. However, only bacteria and fungi are known to degrade microbial sPHAs, using enzymes called polyhydroxyalkanoate depolymerases (PHADs). Here we show that some animals also have PHADs that can degrade s...
Caroline Zeidler, H. Gruber-Vodicka, D. Michellod et al.· Nature Ecology & Evolution· 0 citations
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