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A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species

BACKGROUND: Sclerolinum (Annelida: Siboglinidae) is a genus of small, wiry deep-sea tubeworms that depend on an endosymbiosis with chemosynthetic bacteria for their nutrition, notable for their ability to colonise a multitude of reducing environments. Since the early 2000s, a Sclerolinum population...

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Autores principales: Georgieva, Magdalena N., Wiklund, Helena, Bell, James B., Eilertsen, Mari H., Mills, Rachel A., Little, Crispin T. S., Glover, Adrian G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26667806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y