Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm <i>Riftia pachyptila</i> Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts

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Authors

Colleen M. Cavanaugh · Harvard University

Stephen L. Gardiner · Smithsonian Institution

Meredith L. Jones · National Museum of Natural History

Holger W. Jannasch · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

John Waterbury · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Abstract

The existence of a symbiotic association between vestimentiferan tube worms from deep-sea hydrothermal vents and chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes, based on histological and enzymatic evidence, is suggested.

Topics & Keywords

Marine Biology and Ecology Research Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Isotope Analysis in Ecology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life below water

Publication Details

Published in: Science

Volume 213, Issue 4505, pp. 340-342

DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4505.340

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