Microbe–invertebrate associations, commonly occurring in nature, play a fundamental role
in the life of symbionts, even in hostile habitats, assuming a key importance for both …

Motivation Traits are increasingly being used to quantify global biodiversity patterns, with
trait databases growing in size and number, across diverse taxa. Despite growing interest in …

Endosymbiosis with Gammaproteobacteria is fundamental for the success of bathymodioline
mussels in deep-sea chemosynthesis-based ecosystems. However, the recent discovery of …

Most autotrophs use the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (CBB) cycle for carbon fixation. In
contrast, all currently described autotrophs from the Campylobacterota (previously …

Shrimps of the family Alvinocarididae, endemic species to deep sea chemosynthetic
ecosystems, harbor epibiotic microbes on gills which probably play important roles in the …

Parasite infections are increasingly reported to change the microbiome of the parasitized
hosts, while parasites bring their own microbes to what can be a multi-dimensional …

Aspects of between-individual trophic niche width can be explored through the isotopic
niche concept. In many cases isotopic variability can be influenced by the scale of sampling …

For deep-sea hydrothermal vent crabs, recent investigations have revealed some epibiotic
bacteria, but no study has described the bacterial community associated with the gill and …

Hydrothermal vents in the Southern Ocean are the physiologically most isolated
chemosynthetic environments known. Here, we describe Kiwa tyleri sp. nov., the first species …

Hydrothermal vent ecosystems are home to a wide array of symbioses between animals and
chemosynthetic microbes, among which shrimps in the genus Rimicaris is one of the most …