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| Bettencourt, Raul; Costa, Valentina; Laranjo, Mario; Rosa, Domitilia; Pires, Luis; Colaco, Ana; Sarradin, Pierre Marie; Lopes, Humberto; Sarrazin, Marie Josée; Santos, Ricardo Serrao. |
| Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are considered as some of the most adverse environments in the world, yet the animals dwelling around the vent sites exhibit high productivity and therefore must cope with unusual levels of heavy metals, pH, temperature, CO2 and sulfide, in addition to environmental microbes. In an attempt to understand the physiological reactions of animals normally set to endure extreme conditions we investigated molecular indicators of acclimation processes during which the mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus was maintained over long periods of time under without methane and/or sulfide supplementation, vent mussels seem to endure well aquarium conditions. The presence and induction of a Rel Homology Domain containing gene was investigated along... |
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Palavras-chave: Bathymodiolus azoricus; Innate immunity; Gene expression; IPOCAMP; Physiological adaptation; Hydrothermal vent. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00019/13042/10154.pdf |
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| Martins, Ines; Bettencourt, Raul; Colaco, Ana; Sarradin, Pierre-marie; Santos, Ricardo Serrao; Cosson, Richard. |
| The vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus, host thioautotrophic and methanotrophic bacteria, in their gills and complementary, is able to digest suspended organic matter. But the involvement of nutritional status in metal uptake and storage remains unclear. The influence of B. azoricus physiological condition on its response to the exposure of a mixture of metals in solution is addressed. Mussels from the Menez Gwen field were exposed to 50 mu g L-1 Cd, plus 25 mu g L-1 Cu and 100 mu g L-1 Zn for 24 days. Four conditions were tested: (i) mussels harboring both bacteria but not feed, (ii) harboring only methanotrophic bacteria, (iii) without bacteria but fed during exposure and (iv) without bacteria during starvation. Unexposed mussels under the same... |
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Palavras-chave: Vent mussel B. azoricus; Metal accumulation; Nutritional condition; Metallothioneins; Condition indices. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00026/13741/11328.pdf |
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