Ultrastructure and stable carbon isotope composition of the hydrothermal vent mussels Bathymodiolus brevior and B. sp. affinis brevior from the North Fiji Basin, western Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 165, Issue , 1998, Pages 187-193

  Dubilier, Nicole ^a   Windoffer, Reinhard ^a   Giere, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemoautotrophic bacteria; Mytilid; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL VENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MUSSEL; SYMBIONT; VENT COMMUNITY;

(WEST); PACIFIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATHYMODIOLUS AFFINIS; BATHYMODIOLUS AFFINIS BREVIOR; BATHYMODIOLUS BREVIOR; BATHYMODIOLUS SP.; BIVALVIA; MYTILIDAE;

EID: 0032492842     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps165187     Document Type: Article

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