Host-Microbe Interactions in the Chemosynthetic <italic toggle="yes">Riftia pachyptila</italic> Symbiosis
ABSTRACT 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 molecular level, such analyses were unavailable for the animal host, because sequence information was lack...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-12-01
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Series: | mBio |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02243-19 |