The hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila, having no mouth or gut, rely solely on their intracellular symbiotic chemosynthetic bacteria for nutrition. Incredibly, these organisms can achieve very high growth rates, supported solely by their symbionts' substantial primary production. These tube...
RIFTIA-PACHYPTILABATHYMODIOLUS-AZORICUSChemosynthetic symbioses between bacteria and marine invertebrates were discovered 30 years ago at hydrothermal vents on the ... N Dubilier,C Bergin,C Lott - 《Nature Reviews Microbiology》 被引量: 804发表: 2008年 Embryology of vestimentiferan tube worms from deep...