Arenosclera
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Haplosclerida
- Family: Callyspongiidae
- Genus: Arenosclera
Visual Description
Arenosclera specimens in museum collections are typically depicted as preserved sponge material (invertebrate zoology museum specimens). Images available for this genus include records labeled to species (e.g., Arenosclera brasiliensis), as well as genus-level identifications (Arenosclera), reflecting typical taxonomic use in curated biodiversity databases.
General Biology and Research-Relevant Notes
Sponge–microbe associations
The endemic marine sponge Arenosclera brasiliensis (family Callyspongiidae, order Haplosclerida) is documented as a source of secondary metabolites, including arenosclerins A–C. [2]
Culture-independent sequencing approaches have been used to characterize the sponge-associated microbiome of A. brasiliensis. In one study, shotgun pyrosequencing (454) generated approximately 640,000 high-quality sequences (~150 Mb) from sponge material to characterize the microbiome. [2]
Comparative metagenomic clustering (sponge, seawater, and 23 other metagenomes from marine animals) supported that A. brasiliensis has a distinct, species-associated microbiome relative to surrounding planktonic microbes. [2]
The microbiome was reported to include multiple bacterial phyla (e.g., Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Chloroflexi). [2]
Functional analyses using RAST indicated enrichment of genes related to membrane transport and one-carbon metabolism, and an overrepresentation of sequences associated with aerobic and anaerobic metabolism as well as the synthesis and degradation of secondary metabolites. [2]
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Callyspongiidae / Arenosclera constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Amaro E. Trindade‐Silva; Cintia P. J. Rua; Amaro E. Trindade‐Silva; Bas E. Dutilh; Ana Paula B. Moreira; Robert A. Edwards; Eduardo Hajdu; Gisele Lôbo‐Hajdu; Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos; Roberto G. S. Berlinck; Fabiano L. Thompson. Taxonomic and Functional Microbial Signatures of the Endemic Marine Sponge Arenosclera brasiliensis. PLoS ONE. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039905.