Evidence for the microbial basis of a chemoautotrophic invertebrate community at a whale fall on the deep seafloor: Bone-colonizing bacteria and invertebrate endosymbionts

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 162-170

  Deming, Jody W ^a   Reysenbach, Anna Louise ^b   Macko, Stephen A ^c   Smith, Craig R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Beggiatoa; hydrothermal vents; methanotrophs; mixotrophy; nitrifiers; stable isotopes; sulfide oxidation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HOT SPRINGS; ISOTOPES; METHANE; MOLLUSCS; SHELLFISH; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; VENTS;

BEGGIATOA; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; METHANOTROPHS; MIXOTROPHY; NITRIFIERS; SEAFLOORS; STABLE ISOTOPES; SULFIDE OXIDATION;

BONE;

METHANE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BONE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHALE;

ANISOTREMUS TAENIATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEGGIATOA; BIVALVIA; CETACEA; GASTROPODA; IDASOLA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILIDAE; PATELLIDAE; VESICOMYA; WASHINGTONIA;

EID: 0030990234     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970415)37:2<162::AID-JEMT4>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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