Deep-sea chemoautosynthesis-based communities in the Northwestern Pacific

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 343-363

  Kojima, Shigeaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemosynthetic communities; Northwestern Pacific

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEA; EVOLUTION; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036275261     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015869927288     Document Type: Article

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159. En echelon patterns of Calyptogena colonies in the Japan Trench
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161. Submersible observations of the hydrothermal vent communities on the Iheya Ridge, Mid Okinawa Trough, Japan
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166. Two new species of Provanna (Gastropoda: Cerithiacea) from "snail pit" in the hydrothermal vent site at the Mariana Back-Arc Basin
167. The first underwater observation on living habit and thanatocenoses of Calyptogena soyoae in bathyal depth of Sagami Bay
168. A new turrid gastropod associated with metachromatic seabed near the Calyptogena-community in Sagami Bay
169. Abyssal gastropods and bivalves collected by SHINKAI 6500 on the slope of the Japan Trench
170. Gastropod fauna of a thermal vent site on the North Knoll of Iheya Ridge, Okinawa Trough
171. A new species of lucinid bivalve (Heterodonta: Lucinidae) from Kanesu-no-Se Bank near the mouth of Suruga Bay, with review of the recent species of the chemosynthetic genus Lucinoma from Japan
172. Descriptions of three species of vesicomyid bivalves collected by the submersible Nautile from abyssal depths off Honshu, Japan
173. A new gastropod mullusk associated with hydrothermal vents in the Mariana back-arc basin, Western Pacific
174. New buccinid and turrid gastropods from North Fiji and Lau Basins
175. A new species of vesicomyid bivalve associated with hydrothermal vents near Amami-Oshima Island, Japan
176. Five bathyal gastropods living within or near the Calyptogena community of the Hatsushima Islet, Sagami Bay
177. Another new species of Calyptogena (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) from bathyal depth in Suruga Bay, Japan
178. New taxa and new distribution records of deepsea gastropods collected from or near the chemosynthetic communities in the Japanese waters
179. An unusual vesicomyid Bivalve, Calyptogena nankaiensis n. sp. from bathyal depth off Honshu, Japan
180. Further discovery of new taxon of vesicomyid clam from the Nankai Trough, off Honshu, Japan
181. Two new hadal bivalves of the family Thyasiridae from the plate convergent area of the Japan Trench
182. New taxa and review of vesicomyid bivalves collected from the Northwest Pacific by deep sea research systems of Japan marine science and technology center
183. Two additional new species to gastropod fauna of chemosynthetic site on North Knoll of Iheya Ridge, Okinawa Trough
184. The hydrothermal vent community at the Kaikata Seamount near Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, South Japan
185. Deep-sea submersible survey in the Suruga, Sagami and Japan Trenches: Preliminary results of the 1985 Kaiko cruise, leg 2
186. Evolutionary relationships of deep-sea hydrothermal vent and cold-water seep clam (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae): Results from the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I
187. Cospeciation of chemoautotrophic bacteria and deep sea clams
188. 14N ratios of vesicomyid clams and a vestimentiferan tube worm in the subduction zone East of Japan
189. Outline of SHINKAI-2000 dive surveys at the westernmost part of the Okinawa trough and the Kuroshima Knoll - Preliminary report of the NT00-06 leg-1 cruise
190. Studies of meiofauna collected from the Iheya Ridge during the dive 541 of the "SHINKAI 2000"
191. Meiofauna in a cold-seep community off Hatsushima, Central Japan
192. Biogeography, biodiversity and fluid dependence of deep-sea cold-seep communities at active and passive margins
193. Cold-seep benthic communities in the Japan subduction zones: Geological control of community development
194. Three new species of Pogonophora, including two vestimentiferans, from hydrothermal sites in the Lau Back-arc Basin (Southwest Pacific Ocean)
195. A new vestimentiferan (Pogonophora: Obturata) from hydrothermal vent fields in the Manus Back-Arc Basin (Bismark Sea, Papua New Guinea, Southwest Pacific Ocean)
196. Chemoautotrophic symbiosis in a hydrothermal vent gastropod
197. Compounds of early diagenesis of sediments as energy source in food web of bottom community of Conchocera sp. (Bivalvia) around gasohydrate vents near the Paramushir Island (the Sea of Okhotsk)
198. N-Terminal amino acid sequence of the deep-sea tube worm haemoglobin remarkably resembles that of annelid haemoglobin
199. Primary structure of a dimeric hemoglobin from the deep-sea cold seep clam, Calyptogena soyoae
200. Amino acid sequence of the dimeric hemoglobin (Hb 1) from the deep-sea coldseep clam, Calyptogena soyoae and the phylogenetic relationship with other molluscan globlins
201. The deep-sea tube worm haemoglobin: Subunit structure and phylogenetic relationship with annelid hemoglobin
202. The cDNA-derived amino acid sequence of hemoglobin from Calyptogena kaikoi
203. Genetic diversity of archaea in deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments
204. Analysis of methane-seep microbial communities based on sediment fatty acid analysis
205. A new species of the genus Paralomis (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lithodidae) from the Minami-Ensei Knoll in the Mid-Okinawa Trough
206. A new species of the family Bythograeidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the hydrothermal vents along volcanic front of the Philippine Sea Plate
207. Bottom response to a tsunami earthquake: Submersible observations in the epicenter area of the 1993 earthquake off southwestern Hokkaido, Sea of Japan
208. Discovery of open gashes with bacteria mat and living communities at the frontal thrust of the tectonic belt along eastern margin of Japan Sea
209. Large earthquakes and bottom disturbances in the Okushiri ridge along the eastern margin of Japan Sea
210. Distribution of recent Calyptogena bivalves in Sagami Bay
211. Occurrence and distribution of the hydrothermal deposits in the Izena Hole, Central Okinawa Trough
212. A trial to elucidate locomotory activity patterns in a deep-sea crab (Family: Bythograeidae)
213. Heterochely, relative growth, and gonopod morphology in the bythograeid crab, Austinograea williamsi (Decapoda, Brachyura)
214. Molting of bythograeid crabs under laboratory conditions
215. Preliminary report of a biological, geological, and geochemical survey on hydrothermalism at the Hatoma and Minna Knolls
216. Preliminary report of hydrothermalism and volcanism at the Kaikata Seamount
217. Transfer of endosymbiotic bacteria in the ovary of the giant clam, Calyptogena soyoae
218. Fresh water seepage and pore water recycling on the seafloor: Sagami Trough subduction zone, Japan
219. Methane-rich plumes in the Suruga Trough (Japan) and their carbon isotope characterization
220. Influence of seafloor spreading on the global hydrothermal vent fauna
221. A biogeographical perspective of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent fauna
222. Three new species of Bathymodiolus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from hydrothermal vents in the Lau Basin and the North Fiji Basin, western Pacific, and the Snake Pit area, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
223. Genetic characterization of Lepetodrilus limpets from hydrothermal vents in the Mariana Trough
224. Decapod fauna of the hydrothermally active and adjacent fields on the Hatoma Knoll, southern Japan
225. A new and primitive barnacle (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha) from the North Fiji Basin abyssal hydrothermal field, and its evolutionary implications
226. The hydrothermal vent barnacle Eochinelasmus (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha) from the North Fiji, Lau and Manus Basins, South-West Pacific
227. Chemosynthetic community at North Knoll, Iheya Ridge, Okinawa Trough
228. A currently forming petroleum associated with hydrothermal mineralization in a submarine caldera, Kagoshima Bay, Japan
229. Sulfur isotope composition of soft tissues of deep sea mussels, Bathymodiolus spp., in Japanese waters
230. A gamma-ray spectral and bacteria population surveys on the giant clam colonies, Okinoyama Bank, Sagami Bay
231. The upwelling fluid on the biological community on the subduction zone Sagami Bay
232. Rare earth and trace element biogeochemistry of white clam in off Hatsushima cold seepage