Physiological homogeneity among the endosymbionts of Riftia pachyptila and Tevnia jerichonana revealed by proteogenomics

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 766-776

  Gardebrecht, Antje ^a   Markert, Stephanie ^a,b   Sievert, Stefan M ^c   Felbeck, Horst ^d   Thürmer, Andrea ^e   Albrecht, Dirk ^a   Wollherr, Antje ^e   Kabisch, Johannes ^a,b   Le Bris, Nadine ^f,g   Lehmann, Rüdiger ^e   Daniel, Rolf ^e   Liesegang, Heiko ^e   Hecker, Michael ^a,b   Schweder, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Institute of Marine Biotechnology   (Germany)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer   (France)

^g IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

chemoautotrophy; endosymbiosis; hydrothermal vent; metagenome; proteomics; tubeworms

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CARBON FIXATION; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HOMOGENEITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; OXIDATION; SULFUR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYCHAETA; PROTEOMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CARBON CYCLE; METAGENOMICS; POLYCHAETA; PROTEOMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; TEVNIA JERICHONANA; TUBICOLAE;

EID: 84858860295     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.137     Document Type: Article

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