Coupling metabolite flux to transcriptomics: Insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying primary productivity by the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-265

  Nyholm, Spencer V ^a   Robidart, Julie ^b   Girguis, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIXATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; METABOLITE; POLYCHAETE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RIDGEIA PISCESAE; TUBICOLAE;

EID: 46449117054     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25470667     Document Type: Article

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