The role of microbial motility and chemotaxis in symbiosis

JB Raina, V Fernandez, B Lambert, R Stocker… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Many symbiotic relationships rely on the acquisition of microbial partners from the
environment. However, the mechanisms by which microbial symbionts find and colonize …

Endozoicomonas genomes reveal functional adaptation and plasticity in bacterial strains symbiotically associated with diverse marine hosts

MJ Neave, CT Michell, A Apprill, CR Voolstra - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Endozoicomonas bacteria are globally distributed and often abundantly associated with
diverse marine hosts including reef-building corals, yet their function remains unknown. In …

Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes

DJ Hernandez, KN Kiesewetter, BK Almeida… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Habitat specialization underpins biological processes from species distributions to
speciation. However, organisms are often described as specialists or generalists based on a …

Simulation of Deepwater Horizon oil plume reveals substrate specialization within a complex community of hydrocarbon degraders

P Hu, EA Dubinsky, AJ Probst, J Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) accident released an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil and
1010 mol of natural gas into the Gulf of Mexico, forming deep-sea plumes of dispersed oil …

Distinct genomic routes underlie transitions to specialised symbiotic lifestyles in deep-sea annelid worms

G Moggioli, B Panossian, Y Sun, D Thiel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial symbioses allow annelids to colonise extreme ecological niches, such as
hydrothermal vents and whale falls. Yet, the genetic principles sustaining these symbioses …

Genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic insights into the symbiosis of deep-sea tubeworm holobionts

Y Yang, J Sun, Y Sun, YH Kwan, WC Wong… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents and methane seeps are often densely populated by animals
that host chemosynthetic symbiotic bacteria, but the molecular mechanisms of such host …

Endosymbiont genomes yield clues of tubeworm success

Y Li, MR Liles, KM Halanych - The ISME Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Forty years after discovery of chemosynthetic symbiosis in the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila,
how organisms maintain their unique host–symbiont associations at the cellular level is still …

Abundant toxin-related genes in the genomes of beneficial symbionts from deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

L Sayavedra, M Kleiner, R Ponnudurai, S Wetzel… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Bathymodiolus mussels live in symbiosis with intracellular sulfur-oxidizing (SOX) bacteria
that provide them with nutrition. We sequenced the SOX symbiont genomes from two …

Metabolic handoffs between multiple symbionts may benefit the deep-sea bathymodioline mussels

T Zvi-Kedem, S Vintila, M Kleiner… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bathymodioline mussels rely on thiotrophic and/or methanotrophic chemosynthetic
symbionts for nutrition, yet, secondary heterotrophic symbionts are often present and play an …

Osedax (Siboglinidae: Annelida) utilizes shark teeth for nutrition

GW Rouse, SK Goffredi - … of the Marine Biological Association of the …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We deployed jaws of the common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) on the seafloor at~ 1000
m depth off Monterey California for 8 months. The jaws disintegrated, with all the hyaline …