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Chemoautotrophic symbionts identified in Riftia pachyptila

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Cavanaugh and colleagues report that the giant tube worm's trophosome is packed with sulphur-oxidising bacteria, explaining how an animal with no mouth and no gut feeds itself. Chemosynthesis stops being a hypothesis about vent communities and becomes a documented mechanism.

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  1. Story
  2. Cavanaugh and colleagues report that the giant tube worm's trophosome is packed with sulphur-oxidising bacteria, explaining how an animal with no mouth and no gut feeds itself. Chemosynthesis stops being a hypothesis about vent communities and becomes a documented mechanism.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Hydrothermal Venting
  5. Giant Tube Worm (Riftia pachyptila)
  6. Chemoautotrophic symbionts identified in Riftia pachyptila
  7. Connections
  8. Giant Tube Worm (Riftia pachyptila)
  9. Hydrothermal Venting
  10. Hydrothermal Venting
  11. Bathypelagic Zone (Midnight Zone)
  12. Alvin finds hydrothermal vents on the Galapagos Rift
  13. Chemoautotrophic symbionts identified in Riftia pachyptila
  14. Galapagos Rift
  15. Giant Tube Worm (Riftia pachyptila)
  16. Alvin finds hydrothermal vents on the Galapagos Rift
  17. Submarine thermal springs on the Galapagos Rift published in Science
  18. Chemoautotrophic symbionts identified in Riftia pachyptila
  19. Evidence
  20. Riftia pachyptila houses sulphur-oxidising chemoautotrophic bacteria in the trophosome; the adult worm lacks a mouth and functional gut and depends on carbon fixed by these symbionts.
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