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Free-Living Tube Worm Endosymbionts Found at Deep-Sea Vents

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that deep-sea vestimentiferan tube worms acquire their endosymbiotic bacteria from the environment each generation; thus, free-living symbionts should exist. Here, free-living tube worm symbiont phylotypes were detected in vent seawater and in biofilms at multiple deep-sea vent habitats by PCR amplification, DNA sequence analysis, and fluorescence in situ hybridization. These findings support environmental transmission as a means of symbiont acquisition for deep-sea tube worms.

Source: Applied and Environmental Microbiology

DOI: 10.1128/aem.02470-07

Authors: Tara L. Harmer, Randi D. Rotjan, Andrea D. Nussbaumer, Monika Bright, Andrew W. Ng, Eric G. DeChaine, Colleen M. Cavanaugh

Institutions: Harvard University, University of Vienna, Western Washington University

Language: English

Topic: Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Subfield: Ecology

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life below water

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Division of Biological Infrastructure

Awards: Bacterial Population Structure: Evaluating Gene Flow in the Symbionts of Deep-Sea Mussels \(Genus Bathymodiolus\), Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2004, triphasic life cycle in vestimentifera

OpenAlex ID: W2115802159

FWCI: 4.984

Cites: 32

Cited by: 83

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