Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts
Abstract
The existence of a symbiotic association between vestimentiferan tube worms from deep-sea hydrothermal vents and chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes, based on histological and enzymatic evidence, is suggested.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- July 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.213.4505.340
- Bibcode:
- 1981Sci...213..340C