Genome Reduction in <italic toggle="yes">Psychromonas</italic> Species within the Gut of an Amphipod from the Ocean’s Deepest Point

Genome Reduction in <italic toggle="yes">Psychromonas</italic> Species within the Gut of an Amphipod from the Ocean’s Deepest Point

ABSTRACT Amphipods are the dominant scavenging metazoan species in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. Here the gut microbiota of the amphipod Hirondellea gigas collected from the Challenger and Sirena Deeps of the Mariana Trench were investigated. The 11 amphipod individu...

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Main Authors: Weipeng Zhang, Ren-Mao Tian, Jin Sun, Salim Bougouffa, Wei Ding, Lin Cai, Yi Lan, Haoya Tong, Yongxin Li, Alan J. Jamieson, Vladimir B. Bajic, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Douglas Bartlett, Pei-Yuan Qian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-06-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
amphipod
gut microbiota
Mariana Trench
Psychromonas
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00009-18

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