A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species
Abstract Background Sclerolinum (Annelida: Siboglinidae) is a genus of small, wiry deep-sea tubeworms that depend on an endosymbiosis with chemosynthetic bacteria for their nutrition, notable for their ability to colonise a multitude of reducing environments. Since the early 2000s, a Sclerolinum pop...
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crspringernat:10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y 2023-05-15T15:09:08+02:00 A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species Georgieva, Magdalena N. Wiklund, Helena Bell, James B. Eilertsen, Mari H. Mills, Rachel A. Little, Crispin T. S. Glover, Adrian G. Natural Environment Research Council Natural Environment Research Council 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y.pdf http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y/fulltext.html http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY BMC Evolutionary Biology volume 15, issue 1 ISSN 1471-2148 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2015 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y 2022-01-04T08:19:47Z Abstract Background Sclerolinum (Annelida: Siboglinidae) is a genus of small, wiry deep-sea tubeworms that depend on an endosymbiosis with chemosynthetic bacteria for their nutrition, notable for their ability to colonise a multitude of reducing environments. Since the early 2000s, a Sclerolinum population has been known to inhabit sediment-hosted hydrothermal vents within the Bransfield Strait, Southern Ocean, and whilst remaining undescribed, it has been suggested to play an important ecological role in this ecosystem. Here, we show that the Southern Ocean Sclerolinum population is not a new species, but more remarkably in fact belongs to the species S. contortum , first described from an Arctic mud volcano located nearly 16,000 km away. Results Our new data coupled with existing genetic studies extend the range of this species across both polar oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. Our analyses show that the populations of this species are structured on a regional scale, with greater genetic differentiation occurring between rather than within populations. Further details of the external morphology and tube structure of S. contortum are revealed through confocal and SEM imaging, and the ecology of this worm is discussed. Conclusions These results shed further insight into the plasticity and adaptability of this siboglinid group to a range of reducing conditions, and into the levels of gene flow that occur between populations of the same species over a global extent. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Bransfield Strait Southern Ocean Springer Nature (via Crossref) Arctic Bransfield Strait Southern Ocean BMC Evolutionary Biology 15 1 |
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Abstract Background Sclerolinum (Annelida: Siboglinidae) is a genus of small, wiry deep-sea tubeworms that depend on an endosymbiosis with chemosynthetic bacteria for their nutrition, notable for their ability to colonise a multitude of reducing environments. Since the early 2000s, a Sclerolinum population has been known to inhabit sediment-hosted hydrothermal vents within the Bransfield Strait, Southern Ocean, and whilst remaining undescribed, it has been suggested to play an important ecological role in this ecosystem. Here, we show that the Southern Ocean Sclerolinum population is not a new species, but more remarkably in fact belongs to the species S. contortum , first described from an Arctic mud volcano located nearly 16,000 km away. Results Our new data coupled with existing genetic studies extend the range of this species across both polar oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. Our analyses show that the populations of this species are structured on a regional scale, with greater genetic differentiation occurring between rather than within populations. Further details of the external morphology and tube structure of S. contortum are revealed through confocal and SEM imaging, and the ecology of this worm is discussed. Conclusions These results shed further insight into the plasticity and adaptability of this siboglinid group to a range of reducing conditions, and into the levels of gene flow that occur between populations of the same species over a global extent. |
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A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species |
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A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species |
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A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species |
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A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species |
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A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species |
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chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species |
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