Bacteria and marine eukaryotes often coexist in symbioses that significantly influence the
ecology, physiology and evolution of both partners. De Bary (1879) defined symbiosis as …

Deep-sea bivalves found at hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and organic falls are sustained
by chemosynthetic bacteria that ensure part or all of their carbon nutrition. These symbioses …

Life evolved and flourished in the absence of molecular oxygen (02). As the 02 content of
the atmosphere rose to the present level of 21% beginning about two billion years ago …

The hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus lives in an intimate symbiosis with
two types of chemosynthetic Gammaproteobacteria in its gills: a sulfur oxidizer and a …

In this study, we examine microbial communities of early developmental stages of the coral
Porites astreoides by sequence analysis of cloned 16S rRNA genes, terminal restriction …

Two mud volcano fields were explored during the French–Dutch MEDINAUT cruise (1998)
with the submersible NAUTILE, one south of Crete along the Mediteranean Ridge at about …

Bathymodiolus azoricus and Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis are symbiont‐bearing mussels
that dominate hydrothermal vent sites along the northern Mid‐Atlantic Ridge (MAR). Both …

Deep-sea mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) harbor symbiotic
bacteria in their gills and are among the dominant invertebrate species at cold seeps and …

Deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels, depending on species and location, have the capacity to
host sulfur-oxidizing (thiotrophic) and methanotrophic eubacteria in gill bacteriocytes …

Cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico are often dominated by mussels of the genus
Bathymodiolus that harbour symbiotic bacteria in their gills. In this study, we analysed …