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Meeting report: 1st international symposium on sponge microbiology
Michael W Taylor1, Russell T Hill, Ute Hentschel
1Centre for Microbial Innovation, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. mw.taylor@auckland.ac.nz
Abstract:
The success of the 1st International Symposium on Sponge Microbiology reflects the growing interest of the scientific community in this new and emerging field. Research themes of the symposium included symbiont diversity, physiology and function, secondary metabolites, metagenomics, single-cell genomics and other -omics approaches, sponge-symbiont interactions, sponge diseases, environmental stress, and many more. This article summarizes the major developments in the field and identifies future foci for research.

