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SUBMITTER: Le Bloa S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7381244 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Le Bloa Simon S Boidin-Wichlacz Céline C Cueff-Gauchard Valérie V Rosa Rafael Diego RD Cuvillier-Hot Virginie V Durand Lucile L Methou Pierre P Pradillon Florence F Cambon-Bonavita Marie-Anne MA Tasiemski Aurélie A
Frontiers in immunology 20200713
The symbiotic shrimp <i>Rimicaris exoculata</i> dominates the macrofauna inhabiting the active smokers of the deep-sea mid Atlantic ridge vent fields. We investigated the nature of the host mechanisms controlling the vital and highly specialized ectosymbiotic community confined into its cephalothoracic cavity. <i>R. exoculata</i> belongs to the Pleocyemata, crustacean brooding eggs, usually producing Type I crustins. Unexpectedly, a novel anti-Gram-positive type II crustin was molecularly identi ...[more]