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Deep-sea vesicomyid clams harboring intracellular symbiotic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are often dominant in chemosynthetic animal communities. To understand the symbiotic...

This study would help us to understand of the symbiosis of organisms living in chemosynthetic ecosystems (hydrothermal vents and methane seeps)

Deep-sea clam Phreagena okutanii harbor thioautotrophic symbiotic bacteria in their gill epithelial cells and nutritionally depend on their symbionts because their digestive...