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A Novel Extracellular Gut Symbiont in the Marine Worm Priapulus caudatus (Priapulida) Reveals an Alphaproteobacterial Symbiont Clade of the Ecdysozoa

Priapulus caudatus (phylum Priapulida) is a benthic marine predatory worm with a cosmopolitan distribution. In its digestive tract we detected symbiotic bacteria that were consistently present in specimens collected over 8 years from three sites at the Swedish west coast. Based on their 16S rRNA gen...

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Autores principales: Kroer, Paul, Kjeldsen, Kasper U., Nyengaard, Jens R., Schramm, Andreas, Funch, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4844607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27199899
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00539