The SUP05 clade of gammaproteobacteria (Thioglobaceae) comprises both primary
producers and primary consumers of organic carbon in the oceans. Host-associated …

Bathymodioline mussels rely on thiotrophic and/or methanotrophic chemosynthetic
symbionts for nutrition, yet, secondary heterotrophic symbionts are often present and play an …

The deep sea is the largest habitat on our planet, supporting a vast diversity of organisms
which have yet to be fully described. This habitat is punctuated by hydrothermal vents in …

Microbial pangenomes vary across species; their size and structure are determined by
genetic diversity within the population and by gene loss and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) …

In marine animal–microbe symbioses, horizontal transmission is a common way of symbiont
transfer between host generations. The horizontally transmitted sulphur-oxidising symbionts …