A δ13C-based carbon flux model for the hydrothermal vent chemoautotrophic symbiosis Riftia pachyptila predicts sizeable CO2 gradients at the host-symbiont interface

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 424-432

  Scott, Kathleen M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PACHYPTILA; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; MATHEMATICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0038739228     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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