Functional diversity enables multiple symbiont strains to coexist in deep-sea mussels

R Ansorge, S Romano, L Sayavedra, MÁG Porras… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic diversity of closely related free-living microorganisms is widespread and underpins
ecosystem functioning, but most evolutionary theories predict that it destabilizes intimate …

Distinct genomic routes underlie transitions to specialised symbiotic lifestyles in deep-sea annelid worms

G Moggioli, B Panossian, Y Sun, D Thiel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial symbioses allow annelids to colonise extreme ecological niches, such as
hydrothermal vents and whale falls. Yet, the genetic principles sustaining these symbioses …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals distinct metabolic “microniches” and close host-symbiont interactions in deep-sea chemosynthetic tubeworm

H Wang, H **ao, B Feng, Y Lan, CW Fung, H Zhang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Vestimentiferan tubeworms that thrive in deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems rely on a
single species of sulfide-oxidizing gammaproteobacterial endosymbionts housed in a …

Bacterial symbiont subpopulations have different roles in a deep-sea symbiosis

T Hinzke, M Kleiner, M Meister, R Schlüter… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila hosts a single 16S rRNA phylotype of
intracellular sulfur-oxidizing symbionts, which vary considerably in cell morphology and …

Host-Microbe Interactions in the Chemosynthetic Riftia pachyptila Symbiosis

T Hinzke, M Kleiner, C Breusing, H Felbeck, R Häsler… - Mbio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The deep-sea tubeworm Riftia pachyptila lacks a digestive system but completely relies on
bacterial endosymbionts for nutrition. Although the symbiont has been studied in detail on …

The complete and closed genome of the facultative generalist Candidatus Endoriftia persephone from deep‐sea hydrothermal vents

AL De Oliveira, A Srivastava… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The mutualistic interactions between Riftia pachyptila and its endosymbiont Candidatus
Endoriftia persephone (short Endoriftia) have been extensively researched. However, the …

[PDF][PDF] Novel insights on obligate symbiont lifestyle and adaptation to chemosynthetic environment as revealed by the giant tubeworm genome

AL de Oliveira, J Mitchell, P Girguis… - Molecular Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The mutualism between the giant tubeworm Riftia pachyptila and its endosymbiont
Candidatus Endoriftia persephone has been extensively researched over the past 40 years …

Genomic characterization of a novel gut symbiont from the hadal snailfish

CA Lian, GY Yan, JM Huang, A Danchin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hadal trenches are characterized by not only high hydrostatic pressure but also scarcity of
nutrients and high diversity of viruses. Snailfishes, as the dominant vertebrates, play an …

Endosymbiont population genomics sheds light on transmission mode, partner specificity, and stability of the scaly-foot snail holobiont

Y Lan, J Sun, C Chen, H Wang, Y **ao… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents in
the Indian Ocean relies on its sulphur-oxidising gammaproteobacterial endosymbionts for …