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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2013
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| 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 |