Cargando…
Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications
Correct identification and classification of sponges is challenging due to ambiguous or misleading morphological features. A particular case is a blue keratose sponge occasionally referred to as the “Blue Photo Sponge” among aquarists, which appears frequently (and in several cases unintended) in pr...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
PeerJ Inc.
2018
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6160822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30280018 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5586 |
_version_ | 1783358852116250624 |
---|---|
author | Galitz, Adrian Cook, Steve de C. Ekins, Merrick Hooper, John N. A. Naumann, Peter T. de Voogd, Nicole J. Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Wörheide, Gert Erpenbeck, Dirk |
author_facet | Galitz, Adrian Cook, Steve de C. Ekins, Merrick Hooper, John N. A. Naumann, Peter T. de Voogd, Nicole J. Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Wörheide, Gert Erpenbeck, Dirk |
author_sort | Galitz, Adrian |
collection | PubMed |
description | Correct identification and classification of sponges is challenging due to ambiguous or misleading morphological features. A particular case is a blue keratose sponge occasionally referred to as the “Blue Photo Sponge” among aquarists, which appears frequently (and in several cases unintended) in private aquaria. This spicule-less species, occasionally specified as Collospongia auris Bergquist, Cambie & Kernan 1990, not only displays a high phenotypic plasticity in growth form and colour, it also proliferates in aquacultures under standard conditions unlike most other sponges. Therefore, this species is regarded as a pest for most aquarists. In turn, the ease of cultivation and propagation in aquacultures qualifies this species as a model organism for a wide array of scientific applications. For these purposes, correct identification and classification are indispensable. We reconstructed ribosomal gene trees and determined this species as Lendenfeldia chondrodes (De Laubenfels, 1954) (Phyllospongiinae), distant to Collospongia auris, and corroborated by skeletal features. Additionally, the resulting phylogeny corroborated major shortcomings of the current Phyllospongiinae classification—its consequences are discussed. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6160822 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2018 |
publisher | PeerJ Inc. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-61608222018-10-02 Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications Galitz, Adrian Cook, Steve de C. Ekins, Merrick Hooper, John N. A. Naumann, Peter T. de Voogd, Nicole J. Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Wörheide, Gert Erpenbeck, Dirk PeerJ Marine Biology Correct identification and classification of sponges is challenging due to ambiguous or misleading morphological features. A particular case is a blue keratose sponge occasionally referred to as the “Blue Photo Sponge” among aquarists, which appears frequently (and in several cases unintended) in private aquaria. This spicule-less species, occasionally specified as Collospongia auris Bergquist, Cambie & Kernan 1990, not only displays a high phenotypic plasticity in growth form and colour, it also proliferates in aquacultures under standard conditions unlike most other sponges. Therefore, this species is regarded as a pest for most aquarists. In turn, the ease of cultivation and propagation in aquacultures qualifies this species as a model organism for a wide array of scientific applications. For these purposes, correct identification and classification are indispensable. We reconstructed ribosomal gene trees and determined this species as Lendenfeldia chondrodes (De Laubenfels, 1954) (Phyllospongiinae), distant to Collospongia auris, and corroborated by skeletal features. Additionally, the resulting phylogeny corroborated major shortcomings of the current Phyllospongiinae classification—its consequences are discussed. PeerJ Inc. 2018-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6160822/ /pubmed/30280018 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5586 Text en ©2018 Galitz et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Marine Biology Galitz, Adrian Cook, Steve de C. Ekins, Merrick Hooper, John N. A. Naumann, Peter T. de Voogd, Nicole J. Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Wörheide, Gert Erpenbeck, Dirk Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications |
title | Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications |
title_full | Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications |
title_fullStr | Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications |
title_full_unstemmed | Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications |
title_short | Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications |
title_sort | identification of an aquaculture poriferan “pest with potential” and its phylogenetic implications |
topic | Marine Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6160822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30280018 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5586 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT galitzadrian identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT cookstevedec identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT ekinsmerrick identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT hooperjohnna identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT naumannpetert identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT devoogdnicolej identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT abdulwahabmuhammad identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT worheidegert identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications AT erpenbeckdirk identificationofanaquacultureporiferanpestwithpotentialanditsphylogeneticimplications |