Bacterial symbiont diversity in Arctic seep Oligobrachia siboglinids

Abstract Background High latitude seeps are dominated by Oligobrachia siboglinid worms. Since these worms are often the sole chemosymbiotrophic taxon present (they host chemosynthetic bacteria within the trophosome organ in their trunk region), a key question in the study of high latitude seep ecolo...

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Published in:Animal Microbiome
Main Authors: Arunima Sen, Gwenn Tanguy, Pierre E. Galand, Ann C. Andersen, Stéphane Hourdez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-06-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-023-00251-x