Bacterial communities associated with the Southern Ocean vent gastropod, Gigantopelta chessoia: indication of horizontal symbiont transfer

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Heywood, Jane, Chen, Chong, Pearce, David, Linse, Katrin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: C300 Zoology; C500 Microbiology; Antarctic; East Scotia Ridge; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/31407/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2148-6

Recently discovered hydrothermal vents of the East Scotia Ridge (ESR) in the Southern Ocean host unique faunal communities that depend on microbial chemosynthetic primary production. These highly abundant invertebrates gain energy from either grazing on free-living microbes or via hosting symbiotic...