The bivalve Thyasira cf. gouldi hosts chemoautotrophic symbiont populations with strain level diversity
Invertebrates from various marine habitats form nutritional symbioses with chemosynthetic bacteria. In chemosynthetic symbioses, both the mode of symbiont transmission and the site of bacterial housing can affect the composition of the symbiont population. Vertically transmitted symbionts, as well a...
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-07-01
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