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Genetic variation among endosymbionts of widely distributed vestimentiferan tubeworms.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2000
Di Meo C A, Wilbur A E, Holben W E, Feldman R A, Vrijenhoek R C, Cary S C
Abstract excerpt
Vestimentiferan tubeworms thriving in sulfidic deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps are constrained by their nutritional reliance on chemoautotrophic endosymbionts. In a recent phylogenetic study using 16S ribosomal DNA, we found that endosymbionts from vent and seep habitats form two distinct clades with little variation within each clade. In the present study, we used two different approaches to assess...
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