INTRACELLULAR COEXISTENCE OF METHANOTROPHIC AND THIOAUTOTROPHIC BACTERIA IN A HYDROTHERMAL VENT MUSSEL

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作者
DISTEL, DL [1 ]
LEE, HKW [1 ]
CAVANAUGH, CM [1 ]
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[1] HARVARD UNIV,BIOL LABS,DEPT ORGANISM & EVOLUT BIOL,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
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10.1073/pnas.92.21.9598
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The coexistence of two phylogenetically distinct symbiont species within a single cell, a condition not previously known in any metazoan, is demonstrated in the gills of a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent mussel (family Mytilidae). Large and small symbiont morphotypes within the gill bacteriocytes are shown to be separate bacterial species by molecular phylogenetic analysis and fluorescent in situ hybridization, The two symbiont species are affiliated with thioautotrophic and methanotrophic symbionts previously found in monospecific associations with closely related mytilids from deep-sea hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps.
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