TY - SER ID - rubinblum2019siag T1 - Supplementary information and georeferenced photomosaic of the Chapopote bubble site during RV METEOR cruise M114/2 AU - Rubin-Blum, Maxim AU - Antony, Chakkiath Paul AU - Sayavedra, Lizbeth AU - Martínez-Pérez, Clara AU - Birgel, Daniel AU - Peckmann, Jörn AU - Wu, Yu-Chen AU - Cárdenas, Paco AU - MacDonald, Ian R AU - Marcon, Yann AU - Sahling, Heiko AU - Hentschel, Ute AU - Dubilier, Nicole PY - 2019/04/03/ T2 - Supplement to: Rubin-Blum, M et al. (2019): Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts. The ISME Journal, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0346-7 PB - PANGAEA DO - 10.1594/PANGAEA.899964 UR - https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899964 N2 - Sponges host a remarkable diversity of microbial symbionts, however, the benefit their microbes provide is rarely understood. Here, we describe two new sponge species from deep-sea asphalt seeps and show that they live in a nutritional symbiosis with methane-oxidizing (MOX) bacteria. Metagenomics and imaging analyses revealed unusually high amounts of MOX symbionts in hosts from a group previously assumed to have low microbial abundances. These symbionts belonged to the Marine Methylotrophic Group 2 clade. They are host-specific and likely vertically transmitted, based on their presence in sponge embryos and streamlined genomes, which lacked genes typical of related free-living MOX. Moreover, genes known to play a role in host–symbiont interactions, such as those that encode eukaryote-like proteins, were abundant and expressed. Methane assimilation by the symbionts was one of the most highly expressed metabolic pathways in the sponges. Molecular and stable carbon isotope patterns of lipids confirmed that methane-derived carbon was incorporated into the hosts. Our results revealed that two species of sponges, although distantly related, independently established highly specific, nutritional symbioses with two closely related methanotrophs. This convergence in symbiont acquisition underscores the strong selective advantage for these sponges in harboring MOX bacteria in the food-limited deep sea. KW - asphalt KW - Chapopote KW - Gulf of Mexico KW - LAPM KW - Mosaic KW - Photomosaic KW - seep KW - TAR ER -