Publications

Peer reviewed papers

Ammonia oxidation and recalcitrant carbon degradation fuel mixotrophic growth in the symbiont community of a deep-sea sponge
N. Garritano A, Hill LJ, Ribeiro B, Damasceno T, Medeiros L, Duarte G, Vilela CLS, Majzoub ME, Allen MA, Nappi J, Peixoto RS, Thomas T Published Microbiome 14, 153 (2026) DOI 10.1186/s40168-026-02411-y Summary
Symbiotic Ammonia Oxidation in the Marine Environment
Thomas T, N. Garritano A Published Annual Review of Marine Science 18, 409–427 (2026) DOI 10.1146/annurev-marine-040824-032008 Summary
The novel, wide-spread sponge-associated phylum Spongivicinota shows metabolic complementarity to its sister-phylum Latescibacterota
Allen MA, N. Garritano A, Peixoto RS, Busch K, Slaby B, Hentschel U, Thomas T Published ISME Communications 6, ycag317 (2026) DOI 10.1093/ismeco/ycag317 Summary
Resolving the evolutionary duality of marine symbionts: redefining the genus Endozoicomonas and proposing Neoendozoicomonas gen. nov.
Modolon F, N. Garritano A, Hugenholtz P, Voolstra CR, Keller-Costa T, Costa R, Thomas T, Peixoto RS Published ISME Communications 6, ycag123 (2026) DOI 10.1093/ismeco/ycag123 Summary
Contrasting microbiomes in deep-sea scleractinian and octocoral species from the South Atlantic Ocean
Hill LJ, Damasceno T, N. Garritano A, Modolon F, Medeiros L, Vilela CLS, Duarte G, Thomas T, Peixoto RS Published Sustainable Microbiology 3, qvag048 (2026) DOI 10.1093/sumbio/qvag048 Summary

Putative promiscuous symbionts in deep-sea corals and crinoids may contribute to nitrogen cycling
Modolon F, N. Garritano A, Hill LJ, Duarte G, Bendia A, De Moura R, Pellizari V, Thomas T, Peixoto RS Published Microbiome 13, 234 (2025) DOI 10.1186/s40168-025-02229-0 Summary

Simple Porifera holobiont reveals complex interactions between the host, an archaeon, a bacterium, and a phage
N. Garritano A, Zhang Z, Jia Y, Allen MA, Hill LJ, Kuzhiumparambil U, Hinkley C, Raina JB, Peixoto RS, Thomas T Published The ISME Journal 18, wrae197 (2024) DOI 10.1093/ismejo/wrae197 Summary
Not only for corals: exploring the uptake of beneficial microorganisms for corals by sponges
Ribeiro B, N. Garritano A, Raimundo I, Delgadillo-Ordoñez N, Nappi J, Garcias-Bonet N, Villela H, Thomas T, Klautau M, Peixoto RS Published npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 10, 125 (2024) DOI 10.1038/s41522-024-00584-8 Summary
Bacteria associated with the in hospite Symbiodiniaceae’s phycosphere
Hill LJ, Messias CSMA, Vilela CLS, N. Garritano A, Villela HDM, do Carmo FL, Thomas T, Peixoto RS Published iScience 27, 109531 (2024) DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109531 Summary

Species-specific relationships between deep sea sponges and their symbiotic Nitrosopumilaceae
N. Garritano A, Majzoub ME, Ribeiro B, Damasceno T, Modolon F, Messias C, Vilela C, Duarte G, Hill L, Peixoto R, Thomas T Published The ISME Journal 17, 1517–1519 (2023) DOI 10.1038/s41396-023-01439-4 Summary

HiFiTaxa: a reproducible analysis pipeline for full length 16S rRNA gene and ITS amplicon sequencing from PacBio reads
N. Garritano A, Modolon F, Warren CR Under review bioRxiv (2026). Under review DOI 10.64898/2026.11.03.763332 Code
Metagenome-assembled genomes and viral sequences from deep-sea sponges
Allen MA, N. Garritano A, Fraser VL, Peixoto RS, Busch K, Slaby B, Hentschel U, Thomas T In press Scientific Data, in press (2026). No DOI yet Summary
Dual transcriptomics reveal commensal interactions between microalgae and phycosphere bacteria
Roager L, Schostag M, N. Garritano A, Gram L, Egan S Under review bioRxiv (2026). Under review DOI 10.64898/2026.02.09.704904 Summary
AmplinkOne: a reproducible and modular R workflow for downstream analysis of microbial marker-gene amplicon sequencing data
N. Garritano A, Warren C, Holmes A, Liu S, Li J Under review Under review (2026). No DOI yet

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