ArticleNature communications2010
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent animals seek cool fluids in a highly variable thermal environment.
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- High functional vulnerability across the world's deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Evolution of Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Ion Channels in Antarctic Fishes (Cryonotothenioidea) and Identification of Putative Thermosensors.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Temperatures leading to heat escape responses in Antarctic marine ectotherms match acute thermal limits.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Do Hydrothermal Shrimp Smell Vents?Insects · 2021Article
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- Assessing a species thermal tolerance through a multiparameter approach: the case study of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata.Cell stress & chaperones · 2019Article
- Drivers of temporal beta diversity of a benthic community in a seasonally hypoxic fjord.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Hydrothermal activity, functional diversity and chemoautotrophy are major drivers of seafloor carbon cycling.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Astronomical and atmospheric impacts on deep-sea hydrothermal vent invertebrates.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Size matters at deep-sea hydrothermal vents: different diversity and habitat fidelity patterns of meio- and macrofauna.Marine ecology progress series · 2015Article
- Detection and characterisation of mutations responsible for allele-specific protein thermostabilities at the Mn-superoxide dismutase gene in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete Alvinella pompejana.Journal of molecular evolution · 2013Article
- Thermal limit for metazoan life in question: in vivo heat tolerance of the Pompeii worm.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
The thermal characteristics of an organism's environment affect a multitude of parameters, from biochemical to evolutionary processes. Hydrothermal vents on mid-ocean ridges are created when warm hydrothermal fluids are ejected from the seafloor and mixed with cold bottom seawater; many animals thrive along these steep temperature and chemical gradients. Two-dimensional temperature maps at vent sites have demonstrated order of magnitude thermal changes over centimetre distances and at time intervals from minutes to hours. To investigate whether animals adapt to this extreme level of environmental variability, we examined differences in the thermal behaviour of mobile invertebrates from aquatic habitats that vary in thermal regime. Vent animals were highly responsive to heat and preferred much cooler fluids than their upper thermal limits, whereas invertebrates from other aquatic environments risked exposure to warmer temperatures. Avoidance of temperatures well within their tolerated range may allow vent animals to maintain a safety margin against rapid temperature fluctuations and concomitant toxicity of hydrothermal fluids.
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