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CHAPTER TWELVE Adaptations to the Deep Sea Introduction Now that the fundamental characteristics of biochemical adaptation have been presented, largely through discussions involving one envi-ronmental stress at a time, it seems appropriate to conclude this volume by considering an environment in which all...
The world's oceans cover some 70% of the surface of the globe, and of this area 75% is deeper than 3000 m. Unaided, man can explore only the surface and edges of this mass of water; he requires diverse probes and samplers to investigate the habitat of deep-sea fishes.DOI...
The discovery of near fresh closed lunch box found after 11 months in the wreck of the submersible Alvin in the year 1969 opened up a Pandora's box of microbial diversity in the deep-sea. Discovery that near-freezing temperatures, elevated hydrostatic pressures and slow decaying process at dept...
Since its discovery1,2, the deep-sea glass sponge Euplectella aspergillum has attracted interest in its mechanical properties and beauty. Its skeletal system is composed of amorphous hydrated silica and is arranged in a highly regular and hierarchical cylindrical lattice that begets exceptional flexibi...
Another helpful adaptation in some deep-sea organisms is the ability to generate light. And some organisms use that light to help them capture food. For example, there is a kind of fish called the angler fish, and on its head this fish has a little structure that produces light that ...
Pressure is an important thermodynamic variable of particular significance when comparing biological processes that take place at different depths. Most of what is known about high pressure habitats has come from studies of deep-sea environments. When one considers the tremendous diversity of deep-sea ...
Animals that successfully use vision in the deep-sea environment possess some unusual adaptations to maximize their sensitivity in this very low light environment. In spite of their smaller size, deep-sea crustacean photoreceptors are approximately 80 times more sensitive than human photoreceptors, enabli...
examples of how animal host genomes have adapted to symbioses are still limited to a few model systems (e.g., squid-Vibriosystem and aphid-Buchnerasystem [1,2,3]). Vestimentiferan tubeworms inhabit some of the Earth’s most extreme environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents and col...
Acclimation to pressure may be of widespread occurrence among species that undergo large changes in depth, e.g. during ontogeny. Pressure acclimation may require pressure-regulation of gene expression. Lastly, comparisons of species from the cold deep sea with those from hydrothermal vents have shown...