Evidence for the role of endosymbionts in regional-scale habitat partitioning by hydrothermal vent symbioses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages

  Beinart, Roxanne A ^a   Sanders, Jon G ^a   Faure, Baptiste ^b,c   Sylva, Sean P ^d   Lee, Raymond W ^e   Becker, Erin L ^b   Gartman, Amy ^f   Luther III, George W ^f   Seewald, Jeffrey S ^d   Fisher, Charles R ^b   Girguis, Peter R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoautotrophy; Endosymbiosis; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALVINICONCHA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GASTROPOD; HABITAT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SAMPLER; SYMBIOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROPODA; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ALVINICONCHA; ANIMALIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROPODA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84869832339     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202690109     Document Type: Article

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