Thiotaurine and hypotaurine contents in hydrothermal-vent polychaetes without thiotrophic endosymbionts: correlation with sulfide exposure

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 311, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 439-447

  Yancey, Paul H ^c   Ishikawa, Joanne ^c   Meyer, Brigitte ^c   Girguis, Peter R ^a   Lee, Raymond W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYPOTAURINE; TAURINE; THIOTAURINE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GASTROPOD; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GASTROPODA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; SYMBIOSIS; TAURINE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MALDANIDAE; NICOMACHE; PARALVINELLA SULFINCOLA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 67650309540     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.541     Document Type: Article

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