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Allying with armored snails: the complete genome of gammaproteobacterial endosymbiont.
The ISME journal - 1 Jan 2014
Nakagawa Satoshi, Shimamura Shigeru, Takaki Yoshihiro, Suzuki Yohey, Murakami Shun-ichi, Watanabe Tamaki, Fujiyoshi So, Mino Sayaka, Sawabe Tomoo, Maeda Takahiro, Makita Hiroko, Nemoto Suguru, Nishimura Shin-Ichiro, Watanabe Hiromi, Watsuji Tomo-o, Takai Ken
Abstract excerpt
Deep-sea vents harbor dense populations of various animals that have their specific symbiotic bacteria. Scaly-foot gastropods, which are snails with mineralized scales covering the sides of its foot, have a gammaproteobacterial endosymbiont in their enlarged esophageal glands and diverse epibiont...
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