The Indo-Pacific is the largest marine biogeographical region on Earth and a global center of marine biodiversity.

Marine sponges play a critical role in ocean ecosystems as both habitat formers and nutrient cyclers. Their extensive and complex microbiomes, comprising bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms, ...

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Toonen-Bowen (ToBo) Lab, using a technique ...

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...

Ten new species of sponge have been discovered off Hawaii. Researchers identified the new species of marine sponge using a technique that looks at both genes and structural characteristics. They say ...