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SUBMITTER: Ikuta T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892456 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ikuta Tetsuro T Igawa Kanae K Tame Akihiro A Kuroiwa Tsuneyoshi T Kuroiwa Haruko H Aoki Yui Y Takaki Yoshihiro Y Nagai Yukiko Y Ozawa Genki G Yamamoto Masahiro M Deguchi Ryusaku R Fujikura Katsunori K Maruyama Tadashi T Yoshida Takao T
Royal Society open science 20160518 5
Symbiont transmission is a key event for understanding the processes underlying symbiotic associations and their evolution. However, our understanding of the mechanisms of symbiont transmission remains still fragmentary. The deep-sea clam Calyptogena okutanii harbours obligate sulfur-oxidizing intracellular symbiotic bacteria in the gill epithelial cells. In this study, we determined the localization of their symbiont associating with the spawned eggs, and the population size of the symbiont tra ...[more]