Shift from widespread symbiont infection of host tissues to specific colonization of gills in juvenile deep-sea mussels

The deep-sea mussel Bathymodiolus harbors chemosynthetic bacteria in its gills that provide it with nutrition. Symbiont colonization is assumed to occur in early life stages by uptake from the environment, but little is known about this process. In this study, we used fluorescence in situ hybridizat...

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Autores principales: Wentrup, Cecilia, Wendeberg, Annelie, Huang, Julie Y, Borowski, Christian, Dubilier, Nicole
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23389105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23389105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.5

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