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| Decker, Carole; Zorn, N.; Le Bruchec, J.; Caprais, Jean-claude; Potier, N.; Leize-wagner, E.; Lallier, F. H.; Olu, Karine; Andersen, A. C.. |
| Vesicomyids live in endosymbiosis with sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and therefore need hydrogen sulfide to survive. They can nevertheless live in a wide range of sulfide and oxygen levels and depths, which may explain the exceptional diversity of this clam family in deep-sea habitats. In the Gulf of Guinea, nine species of vesicomyid clams are known to live in cold-seep areas with pockmarks from 600 to 3200 m deep, as well as in the organic-rich sediments of the Congo deep-sea fan at 5000 m deep. Our previous study showed that two species living in a giant pockmark have different oxygen carriers, suggesting different adaptations to hypoxia. Here, we studied the hemoglobin structure and oxygen affinity in three other species, Calyptogena valdiviae, Elenaconcha... |
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Palavras-chave: Hemoglobin; Mass spectrometry; Oxygen affinity; Symbiont-bearing bivalve; Blood-clams; Cold seeps; Sulfide-rich sediments. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00358/46961/46875.pdf |
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