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SUBMITTER: Goffredi SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC404406 | biostudies-literature | 2004 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goffredi Shana K SK Warén Anders A Orphan Victoria J VJ Van Dover Cindy L CL Vrijenhoek Robert C RC
Applied and environmental microbiology 20040501 5
Here we describe novel forms of structural integration between endo- and episymbiotic microbes and an unusual new species of snail from hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean. The snail houses a dense population of gamma-proteobacteria within the cells of its greatly enlarged esophageal gland. This tissue setting differs from that of all other vent mollusks, which harbor sulfur-oxidizing endosymbionts in their gills. The significantly reduced digestive tract, the isotopic signatures of the snail ...[more]