%0 Journal Article
%T First Molecular Identification of Symbiotic Archaea in a Sponge Collected from the Persian Gulf, Iran
%A Akram Najafi
%A Iraj Nabipour
%A Maryam Moradinasab
%A Mohammad A. Haghighi
%A Mohammad Seyedabadi
%J Archive of "The Open Microbiology Journal".
%D 2018
%R 10.2174/1874285801812010323
%X Marine sponges are associated with numerically vast and phylogenetically diverse microbial communities at different geographical locations. However, little is known about the archaeal diversity of sponges in the Persian Gulf. The present study was aimed to identify the symbiotic archaea with a sponge species gathered from the Persian Gulf, Iran
%K Porifera
%K Uncultured Archaea
%K Symbiosis
%K Chondrilla australiensis
%K Persian Gulf
%K Taxonomy
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198412/