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Provedor de dados: | 5
País: | France
Título: | Influence of CH4 and H2S availability on symbiont distribution, carbon assimilation and transfer in the dual symbiotic vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus
Autores: | Riou, V.; Halary, S.; Duperron, S.; Bouillon, S.; Elskens, M.; Bettencourt, R.; Santos, R. S.; Dehairs, F.; Colaco, A.
Data: | 2008-12-11
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Mid-atlantic ridge; Hydrocarbon-seep mussel; Deep-sea mussels; Hydrothermal-vent; Puteoserpentis bivalvia; Mytilidae; Methane; Endosymbionts; Bacteria; Metabolism.
Resumo: | High densities of mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus are present at hydrothermal vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It was previously proposed that the chemistry at vent sites would affect their sulphide- and methane-oxidizing endosymbionts' abundance. In this study, we confirmed the latter assumption using fluorescence in situ hybridization on Bathymodiolus azoricus specimens maintained in a controlled laboratory environment at atmospheric pressure with one, both or none of the chemical substrates. A high level of symbiosis plasticity was observed, methane-oxidizers occupying between 4 and 39% of total bacterial area and both symbionts developing according to the presence or absence of their substrates. Using (HCO3-)-C-13 in the presence of sulphide, or (CH4)-C-13, we monitored carbon assimilation by the endosymbionts and its translocation to symbiont-free mussel tissues. Carbon was incorporated from methane and sulphide- oxidized inorganic carbon at rates 3 to 10 times slower in the host muscle tissue than in the symbiont-containing gill tissue. Both symbionts thus contribute actively to B. azoricus nutrition and adapt to the availability of their substrates. Further experiments with varying substrate concentrations using the same set-up should provide useful tools to study and even model the effects of changes in hydrothermal fluids on B. azoricus' chemosynthetic nutrition.
Tipo: | Text
Idioma: | Inglês

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https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00207/31865/30271.pdf

DOI:10.5194/bg-5-1681-2008

https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00207/31865/

Editor: | Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh
Formato: | application/pdf
Fonte: | Biogeosciences (1726-4170) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2008-12-11 , Vol. 5 , N. 6 , P. 1681-1691

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