ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015
Endosymbionts escape dead hydrothermal vent tubeworms to enrich the free-living population.
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- Genome Study of α-, β-, and γ-Carbonic Anhydrases from the Thermophilic Microbiome of Marine Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems.Biology · 2023Article
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- The microbiome of the marine flatworm Macrostomum lignano provides fitness advantages and exhibits circadian rhythmicity.Communications biology · 2023Article
- The complete and closed genome of the facultative generalist Candidatus Endoriftia persephone from deep-sea hydrothermal vents.Molecular ecology resources · 2022Article
- Microbial communities in developmental stages of lucinid bivalves.ISME communications · 2022Article
- Horizontal transmission enables flexible associations with locally adapted symbiont strains in deep-sea hydrothermal vent symbioses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Novel Insights on Obligate Symbiont Lifestyle and Adaptation to Chemosynthetic Environment as Revealed by the Giant Tubeworm Genome.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
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- The symbiotic 'all-rounders': Partnerships between marine animals and chemosynthetic nitrogen-fixing bacteria.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Review
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- Horizontally transmitted symbiont populations in deep-sea mussels are genetically isolated.The ISME journal · 2019Article
- Potential Interactions between Clade SUP05 Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria and Phages in Hydrothermal Vent Sponges.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- The microbiomes of deep-sea hydrothermal vents: distributed globally, shaped locally.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2019Review
- Polyclonal symbiont populations in hydrothermal vent tubeworms and the environment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Endosymbiont genomes yield clues of tubeworm success.The ISME journal · 2018Article
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Abstract
Theory predicts that horizontal acquisition of symbionts by plants and animals must be coupled to release and limited dispersal of symbionts for intergenerational persistence of mutualisms. For deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworms (Vestimentifera, Siboglinidae), it has been demonstrated that a few symbiotic bacteria infect aposymbiotic host larvae and grow in a newly formed organ, the trophosome. However, whether viable symbionts can be released to augment environmental populations has been doubtful, because (i) the adult worms lack obvious openings and (ii) the vast majority of symbionts has been regarded as terminally differentiated. Here we show experimentally that symbionts rapidly escape their hosts upon death and recruit to surfaces where they proliferate. Estimating symbiont release from our experiments taken together with well-known tubeworm density ranges, we suggest a few million to 1.5 billion symbionts seeding the environment upon death of a tubeworm clump. In situ observations show that such clumps have rapid turnover, suggesting that release of large numbers of symbionts may ensure effective dispersal to new sites followed by active larval colonization. Moreover, release of symbionts might enable adaptations that evolve within host individuals to spread within host populations and possibly to new environments.
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