Biological rhythms in the deep-sea hydrothermal mussel - Nature
WEBJul 10, 2020 — We reveal that tidal cycles predominate in the transcriptome and physiology of mussels fixed directly at hydrothermal vents at 1,688 m depth at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, whereas daily cycles...
A Mussel's Life Around Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
WEBMay 29, 2019 — Mussels are among the most studied animals found near hydrothermal vents. Scientists discovered that mussels rely on a close, living relationship—a “symbiosis”—with bacteria for their nutrition.
Bathymodiolus thermophilus - Wikipedia
WEBBathymodiolus thermophilus is a species of large, deep water mussel, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae, the true mussels. The species was discovered at abyssal depths when submersible vehicles such as DSV Alvin began exploring the deep ocean. [3]
Mussel biology: from the byssus to ecology and physiology, …
WEBSep 16, 2021 — The byssus may have also enabled access to vent environments, allowing mussels to attach to “evolutionary stepping stones” and also to vent chimneys. Mussels are a group of bivalves that includes the dominant species of shallow-sea, freshwater, and deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems.
WEBVent mussels attach to vent chimneys and surrounding rocks using byssal threads, or very sticky filaments produced by the mussels’ foot. The mussels are often found growing in large clusters. The black spots on the shells are former anchor points of mussels who have cut their threads and moved on.
Adaptation to deep-sea chemosynthetic environments as revealed …
WEBApr 3, 2017 — Hydrothermal vents and methane seeps are extreme deep-sea ecosystems that support dense populations of specialized macrobenthos such as mussels. But the lack of genome information...
Deep‐Sea Hydrothermal Vent Mussels: Nutritional State and Distribution ...
WEBRich faunal communities have been discovered around active deep—sea hydrothermal vent sites. The mussel Bathymodiolus thermophilus (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) is one dominant member of this hard—substrate community along the Galapagos Rift, east of the Galapagos Islands in the equatorial eastern Pacific.
Widespread introgression in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels
WEBHere we used diagnostic, single nucleotide polymorphisms in combination with one mitochondrial gene to re-examine prior hypotheses about a contact zone involving deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels, Bathymodiolus azoricus and B. puteoserpentis, living along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Metabolic and physiological interdependencies in the
WEBNov 1, 2016 — The hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus lives in an intimate symbiosis with two types of chemosynthetic Gammaproteobacteria in its gills: a sulfur oxidizer and a methane oxidizer.
Evolutionary Process of Deep-Sea Bathymodiolus Mussels
WEBApr 27, 2010 — Deep-sea mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus (Mytilidae, Bathymodiolinae) are one of the dominant macroorganisms in chemosynthesis-based communities in hydrothermal vents on spreading ridges and back-arc basins and in cold-water seeps along subduction zones.