Marine Sponges – Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

摘要: Marine sponges are an ancient and diverse animal phylum that host well-established symbiotic microbial communities. The vast majority of the genetic diversity in is, however, currently inaccessible by traditional methods. This large resource may be use for biotechnological applications, particularly as physicochemical parameters under which genes within these microbes function likely to dictate they significantly different from similar or gene products industry, offering some instances improved performance. Emerging tools technologies field metagenomics offer enormous potential discovery exploitation new biosynthetic entities. Both sequence-based function-based have date been employed identify with novel functions. sponges, well-recognized sources marine natural varied ideal target implementation technologies. We detail here successes development industrial pharmaceutical applications we also highlight technical impediments product yet still need overcome.