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Genomic versatility and functional variation between two dominant heterotrophic symbionts of deep-sea Osedax worms.
The ISME journal - 1 Apr 2014
Goffredi Shana K, Yi Hana, Zhang Qingpeng, Klann Jane E, Struve Isabelle A, Vrijenhoek Robert C, Brown C Titus
Abstract excerpt
An unusual symbiosis, first observed at ~3000 m depth in the Monterey Submarine Canyon, involves gutless marine polychaetes of the genus Osedax and intracellular endosymbionts belonging to the order Oceanospirillales. Ecologically, these worms and their microbial symbionts have a substantial role in the cycling of carbon from deep-sea whale fall carcasses. Microheterogeneity exists among the Osedax symbionts...
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