Environmental Acquisition of Thiotrophic Endosymbionts by Deep-Sea Mussels of the Genus Bathymodiolus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6785-6792

  Won, Yong Jin ^a,b   Hallam, Steven J ^a   O'Mullan, Gregory D ^c   Pan, Irvin L ^d   Buck, Kurt R ^a   Vrijenhoek, Robert C ^a  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; OXIDATION; SULFUR;

POPULATION GENETIC ANALYSIS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BATHYMODIOLUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THIOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENDOCYTOSIS; GILLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATHYMODIOLUS; BATHYMODIOLUS AZORICUS; BATHYMODIOLUS PUTEOSERPENTIS;

EID: 0242573192     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6785-6792.2003     Document Type: Article

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