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Rabouille, C.; Olu, Karine; Baudin, F.; Khripounoff, Alexis; Dennielou, Bernard; Arnaud-haond, Sophie; Babonneau, Nathalie; Bayle, Christophe; Beckler, J.; Bessette, Sandrine; Bombled, B.; Bourgeois, S.; Brandily, Christophe; Caprais, Jean-claude; Cathalot, Cecile; Charlier, K.; Corvaisier, R.; Croguennec, Chantal; Cruaud, Perrine; Decker, Carole; Droz, L.; Gayet, Nicolas; Godfroy, Anne; Hourdez, S.; Le Bruchec, J.; Saout, Johan; Le Saout, Marie-helene; Lesongeur, Francoise; Martinez, P.; Mejanelle, L.; Michalopoulos, P.; Mouchel, Olivier; Noel, Philippe; Pastor, Lucie; Picot, M.; Pignet, Patricia; Pozzato, L.; Pruski, A. M.; Rabiller, Manuella; Raimonet, M.; Ragueneau, O.; Reyss, J. L.; Rodier, Philippe; Ruesch, Blandine; Ruffine, Livio; Savignac, F.; Senyarich, C.; Schnyder, J.; Sen, Arunima; Stetten, E.; Sun, Ming Yi; Taillefert, M.; Teixeira, S.; Tisnerat-laborde, N.; Toffin, Laurent; Tourolle, Julie; Toussaint, F.; Vetion, G.; Jouanneau, J. M.; Bez, M.. |
The presently active region of the Congo deep-sea fan (around 330 000 km2), called the terminal lobes or lobe complex, covers an area of 2500 km2 at 4700–5100 m water depth and 750–800 km offshore. It is a unique sedimentary area in the world ocean fed by a submarine canyon and a channel-levee system which presently deliver large amounts of organic carbon originating from the Congo River by turbidity currents. This particularity is due to the deep incision of the shelf by the Congo canyon, up to 30 km into the estuary, which funnels the Congo River sediments into the deep-sea. The connection between the river and the canyon is unique for major world rivers. In 2011, two cruises (WACS leg 2 and Congolobe) were conducted to simultaneously investigate the... |
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Palavras-chave: Chemosynthetic habitats; Congo deep-sea fan; Fine sediment; Sedimentation rate; Seafloor morphology; Turbidite; Vesicomyidae. |
Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00335/44580/44298.pdf |
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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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Khripounoff, Alexis; Caprais, Jean-claude; Decker, Carole; Le Bruchec, J.; Noel, Philippe; Husson, Berengere. |
We studied bivalves (vesicomyids and mytilids) inhabiting four different areas of high sulfide and methane production: 1) in the Gulf of Guinea, two pockmarks (650 m and 3150 m depth) and one site rich in organic sediments in the deepest zone (4950 m average depth), 2) at the Azores Triple Junction on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, one hydrothermal site (Lucky Strike vent field, 1700 m depth). Two types of Calmar benthic chambers were deployed, either directly set into the sediment (standard Calmar chamber) or fitted with a tank to isolate organisms from the sediment (modified Calmar chamber), to assess gas and solute exchanges in relation to bivalve bed metabolism. Fluxes of oxygen, total carbon dioxide, ammonium and methane were measured. At the site with... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep-sea; Benthic chamber; Vesicomyid and Mytilid bivalves; Respiration rate; Cold seep; Hydrothermal vent. |
Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00341/45204/44614.pdf |
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