Dancing for food in the deep sea: bacterial farming by a new species of Yeti crab.

Dancing for food in the deep sea: bacterial farming by a new species of Yeti crab.

Vent and seep animals harness chemosynthetic energy to thrive far from the sun's energy. While symbiont-derived energy fuels many taxa, vent crustaceans have remained an enigma; these shrimps, crabs, and barnacles possess a phylogenetically distinct group of chemosynthetic bacterial epibionts,...

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Main Authors: Andrew R Thurber, William J Jones, Kareen Schnabel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22140426/?tool=EBI

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