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| Duperron, Sebastien; Rodrigues, Clara F.; Leger, Nelly; Szafranski, Kamil; Decker, Carole; Olu, Karine; Gaudron, Sylvie M.. |
| Fauna from deep-sea cold seeps worldwide is dominated by chemosymbiotic metazoans. Recently, investigation of new sites in the Gulf of Guinea yielded numerous new species for which symbiosis was strongly suspected. In this study, symbioses are characterized in five seep-specialist metazoans recently collected from the Guiness site located at ∼600 m depth. Four bivalve and one annelid species belonging to families previously documented to harbor chemosynthetic bacteria were investigated using bacterial marker gene sequencing, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and stable isotope analyses. Results support that all five species display chemosynthetic, sulfur-oxidizing γ-proteobacteria. Bacteria are abundant in the gills of bivalves, and in the trophosome of... |
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Palavras-chave: Acharax; Calyptogena; Chemosynthesis; Cold seeps; Elenaconcha; Gulf of Guinea; Lamellibrachia; Symbiosis; Thyasira. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00133/24418/22432.pdf |
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| Carlier, Antoine; Ritt, Benedicte; Rodrigues, Clara F.; Sarrazin, Jozee; Olu, Karine; Grall, Jacques; Clavier, Jacques. |
| Cold seep communities in the Mediterranean Sea have only been discovered two decades ago, and their trophic ecology has been the subject of very few studies. We investigated the benthic food web of two deep chemosynthesis-based ecosystems on the Napoli and Amsterdam mud volcanoes (MVs) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (similar to 2,000 m depth). Seeping methane has been detected at the surface of both MVs during pioneering cruises and has been hypothesised to be assimilated by benthic fauna as observed in other oceans' margins. Given the extreme oligotrophic character of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, we a priori expected that chemosynthetic food sources, especially methane-derived carbon (MDC), played a major trophic role in these deep seep communities... |
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Palavras-chave: Gulf of Mexico; Anaerobic methane oxidation; Stable isotope analysis; Sea hydrothermal vents; Food web structure; Kazan mud volcano; Florida escarpment; Trophic relationships; Benthic communauties; Lamellibrachia SP. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00016/12684/9633.pdf |
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