PRJNA663558
Effects of crude oil and dispersant exposure from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on sponges from the Cinachyrella genus
24 sponges from the Cinachyrella genus, and collected on the Florida reef tract were exposed to sublethal doses (0.5 ppm) of crude oil, dispersant, and oil:dispersant mixtures. Differential expression profiling was performed to characterized the effect of oil spill chemicals on benthic organisms using this new sponge model organisms.