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SUBMITTER: Harmer TL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2446571 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harmer Tara L TL Rotjan Randi D RD Nussbaumer Andrea D AD Bright Monika M Ng Andrew W AW DeChaine Eric G EG Cavanaugh Colleen M CM
Applied and environmental microbiology 20080411 12
Recent evidence suggests that deep-sea vestimentiferan tube worms acquire their endosymbiotic bacteria from the environment each generation; thus, free-living symbionts should exist. Here, free-living tube worm symbiont phylotypes were detected in vent seawater and in biofilms at multiple deep-sea vent habitats by PCR amplification, DNA sequence analysis, and fluorescence in situ hybridization. These findings support environmental transmission as a means of symbiont acquisition for deep-sea tube ...[more]