Carbon release from purified chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 294-302

  Felbeck, Horst ^a   Jarchow, Janka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBON FIXATION; HYDROTHERMAL ORGANISM; SYMBIONT;

POGONOPHORA; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA;

EID: 0032078194     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515931     Document Type: Article

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