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Diversity of symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and metazoans at the Guiness cold seep site (Gulf of Guinea, West Africa).
MicrobiologyOpen - 1 Dec 2012
Duperron Sébastien, Rodrigues Clara F, Léger Nelly, Szafranski Kamil, Decker Carole, Olu Karine, Gaudron Sylvie M
Abstract excerpt
Fauna from deep-sea cold seeps worldwide is dominated by chemosymbiotic metazoans. Recently, investigation of new sites in the Gulf of Guinea yielded numerous new species for which symbiosis was strongly suspected. In this study, symbioses are characterized in five seep-specialist metazoans recently collected from the Guiness site located at ≈ 600 m depth. Four bivalve and one annelid species belonging to...
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