AUTHOR=Xiang Xueyan , Vilar Gomez Arturo A. , Blomberg Simone P. , Yuan Huifang , Degnan Bernard M. , Degnan Sandie M. TITLE=Potential for host-symbiont communication via neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in an aneural animal, the marine sponge Amphimedon queenslandica JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neural Circuits VOLUME=17 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neural-circuits/articles/10.3389/fncir.2023.1250694 DOI=10.3389/fncir.2023.1250694 ISSN=1662-5110 ABSTRACT=
Interkingdom signalling within a holobiont allows host and symbionts to communicate and to regulate each other’s physiological and developmental states. Here we show that a suite of signalling molecules that function as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in most animals with nervous systems, specifically dopamine and trace amines, are produced exclusively by the bacterial symbionts of the demosponge