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First insights into the phylogeny of deep-sea glass sponges (Hexactinellida) from polymetallic nodule fields in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), northeastern Pacific

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Glass sponges represent a dominant group of megabenthic deep-sea fauna and play a key role in benthic deep-sea ecosystems. Especially in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), a potential deep-sea mining area, they grow on polymetallic nodules or on the surrounding sediment. We investigate hexactinellids from the CCFZ to understand the ecological aspects of deep-sea mining and support the development of future pre-mining risk assessments and monitoring actions. Therefore, this study is published as part of a series of studies, all focusing on deep-sea glass sponges from the CCFZ. Resolving genetic relationships between species is still a fundamental as well as challenging task. Especially understudied groups mostly lack resolution. Combining results derived from taxonomic and phylogenetic data gives deeper insights into glass sponge relationships. Here, we present (1) a set of new primers for sequencing mitochondrial 16S rDNA as well as nuclear 18S and 28S rDNA of glass sponges, (2) first DNA sequencing data for 6 hexactinellid genera and 19 species, as well as (3) the most comprehensive phylogenetic tree of hexactinellid sponges to date including data available from previous studies.

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Acknowledgements

The EcoResponse cruise with RV Sonne was financed by the German Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) as a contribution to the European project JPI-Oceans “Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining”. The authors acknowledge funding from BMBF under Contract 03F0707E. Furthermore, we want to thank Dr. Barbara Feldmeyer and Dr. Ann-Marie Waldvogel for assistance of molecular lab work and Dr. Martin Dohrmann for information on sponge specific DNA primers and PCR protocols.

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  1. German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 44, 26382, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

    Daniel Kersken, Dorte Janussen & Pedro Martínez Arbizu

  2. Department of Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Daniel Kersken

  3. Department of Biological Sciences and Alabama Museum of Natural History, The University of Alabama, 1325 Hackberry Ln, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401, USA

    Kevin Kocot

  4. Adaptation and Climate, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Georg-Voigt-Straße 14-16, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Tilman Schell & Markus Pfenninger

  5. Faculty of Biological Science, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Straße 9, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Markus Pfenninger

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GenBank: All nucleotide sequences used in this study have accession numbers at GenBank (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) (Supplementary Material 3).

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Kersken, D., Kocot, K., Janussen, D. et al. First insights into the phylogeny of deep-sea glass sponges (Hexactinellida) from polymetallic nodule fields in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), northeastern Pacific. Hydrobiologia 811, 283–293 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3498-3

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