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| Duperron, Sebastien; Pottier, Marie-anne; Leger, Nelly; Gaudron, Sylvie M.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Le Prieur, Stephanie; Sigwart, Julia D.; Ravaux, Juliette; Zbinden, Magali. |
| Although most chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) are shallow-water molluscs, diverse species also occur in deep-sea habitats. We investigated the feeding strategies of two species, Leptochiton boucheti and Nierstraszella lineata, recovered on sunken wood sampled in the western Pacific, close to the Vanuatu Islands. The two species display distinctly different associations with bacterial partners. Leptochiton boucheti harbours Mollicutes in regions of its gut epithelium and has no abundant bacterium associated with its gill. Nierstraszella lineata displays no dense gut-associated bacteria, but harbours bacterial filaments attached to its gill epithelium, related to the Deltaproteobacteria symbionts found in gills of the wood-eating limpet Pectinodonta sp.... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Sunken wood; Polyplacophora; Symbiosis; Mollicutes; Deltaproteobacteria; Deep-sea ecology. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00138/24933/23035.pdf |
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