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Phylogeny of 16S rRNA, ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, and adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase genes from gamma- and alphaproteobacterial symbionts in gutless marine worms (oligochaeta) from Bermuda and the BahamasAnna Blazejak
Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, D 28359 Bremen, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:5527-36. 2006....
Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesisNicole Dubilier
Symbiosis Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr 1, D 28359 Bremen, Germany
Nat Rev Microbiol 6:725-40. 2008..This Review focuses on the diversity of chemosynthetic symbionts and their hosts, and examines the traits that have resulted in their evolutionary success...- Multiple bacterial symbionts in two species of co-occurring gutless oligochaete worms from Mediterranean sea grass sedimentsCaroline Ruehland
Symbiosis Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, D 28359 Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 10:3404-16. 2008.... 
Origins and evolutionary flexibility of chemosynthetic symbionts from deep-sea animalsJillian M Petersen
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Biol Bull 223:123-37. 2012..The host range within the bathymodiolin symbionts is therefore greater than previously recognized, confirming the remarkable flexibility of these symbiotic associations...- Widespread occurrence of an intranuclear bacterial parasite in vent and seep bathymodiolin musselsFrank U Zielinski
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Symbiosis Group, Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 11:1150-67. 2009..We hypothesize that many of the sequences from this clade originated from intranuclear bacteria, and that these are widespread in marine invertebrates... - Endosymbioses between bacteria and deep-sea siboglinid tubeworms from an Arctic Cold Seep (Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea)Tina Lösekann
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, Bremen 28359, Germany
Environ Microbiol 10:3237-54. 2008..In O. haakonmosbiensis, stable carbon isotope values of fatty acids and cholesterol of -70 per thousand are difficult to reconcile with our current knowledge of isotope signatures for chemoautotrophic processes... - Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbiosesJillian M Petersen
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Nature 476:176-80. 2011..We propose that the ability to use hydrogen as an energy source is widespread in hydrothermal vent symbioses, particularly at sites where hydrogen is abundant... - Dual symbiosis of the vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata with filamentous gamma- and epsilonproteobacteria at four Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent fieldsJillian M Petersen
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 12:2204-18. 2010..We hypothesize that biogeography and host-symbiont selectivity play a role in structuring the epibiosis of R. exoculata... - Expression patterns of mRNAs for methanotrophy and thiotrophy in symbionts of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus puteoserpentisAnnelie Wendeberg
Department of Molecular Ecology, Celsiusstr, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
ISME J 6:104-12. 2012.... - Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy useManuel Kleiner
Symbiosis Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:E1173-82. 2012..algarvensis symbiosis indicates that the oligotrophic nature of its environment exerted a strong selective pressure in shaping these associations... - Gamma- and epsilonproteobacterial ectosymbionts of a shallow-water marine worm are related to deep-sea hydrothermal vent ectosymbiontsCaroline Ruehland
Symbiosis Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, D 28359 Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 12:2312-26. 2010.... - Molecular and morphological characterization of the association between bacterial endosymbionts and the marine nematode Astomonema sp. from the BahamasNiculina Musat
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 9:1345-53. 2007..symbionts use reduced sulfur compounds as an energy source to provide their hosts with nutrition... - Diversity, relative abundance and metabolic potential of bacterial endosymbionts in three Bathymodiolus mussel species from cold seeps in the Gulf of MexicoSébastien Duperron
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 9:1423-38. 2007..brooksi, with specimens from Alaminos Canyon harbouring much lower densities than those from Atwater Valley. This shows that symbiont abundance is not species-specific but can vary considerably between populations... - High symbiont diversity in the bone-eating worm Osedax mucofloris from shallow whale-falls in the North AtlanticCaroline Verna
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 12:2355-70. 2010..The observed diversity and distribution patterns indicate that the endosymbionts are transmitted horizontally from the environment with repeated infection events occurring as the host root tissues grow into the whale bones... - Convergent and divergent evolution of metabolism in sulfur-oxidizing symbionts and the role of horizontal gene transferManuel Kleiner
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Symbiosis Group, Celsiusstrasse 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Curr Opin Microbiol 15:621-31. 2012..We hypothesize that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) would explain many of these incongruencies, and conclude that HGT may have played a significant role in shaping the metabolic evolution of GammaSOX symbionts... - Genetic connectivity between north and south Mid-Atlantic Ridge chemosynthetic bivalves and their symbiontsKarina van der Heijden
Symbiosis Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
PLoS ONE 7:e39994. 2012..Our results indicate genetic connectivity between the northern and southern MAR and suggest that a strict dispersal barrier does not exist... - A dual symbiosis shared by two mussel species, Bathymodiolus azoricus and Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), from hydrothermal vents along the northern Mid-Atlantic RidgeSébastien Duperron
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr 1, D 28359 Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 8:1441-7. 2006.... - The searchlight and the bucket of microbial ecologyNicole Dubilier
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Environ Microbiol 9:2-3. 2007 - Novel epibiotic thiothrix bacterium on a marine amphipodDavid C Gillan
Marine Biology Laboratory, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, B 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:3772-5. 2004..FISH and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis revealed that the Thiothrix filaments are present on the majority of the amphipods examined... - Coexistence of bacterial sulfide oxidizers, sulfate reducers, and spirochetes in a gutless worm (Oligochaeta) from the Peru marginAnna Blazejak
Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:1553-61. 2005..Such a phylogenetically diverse yet highly specific and stable association in which multiple bacterial phylotypes coexist within a single host has not been described previously for marine invertebrates... - Dual symbiosis in a Bathymodiolus sp. mussel from a methane seep on the Gabon continental margin (Southeast Atlantic): 16S rRNA phylogeny and distribution of the symbionts in gillsSébastien Duperron
IFREMER Départment Environnement Profond, Centre de Brest, Plouzane, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:1694-700. 2005.... - Hydrothermal vent gastropods from the same family (Provannidae) harbour epsilon- and gamma-proteobacterial endosymbiontsHidetoshi Urakawa
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Environ Microbiol 7:750-4. 2005..More generally, the endosymbiotic lifestyle is now shown to be distributed throughout all recognized classes of the Proteobacteria... - Symbioses between bacteria and gutless marine oligochaetesNicole Dubilier
, Celsiusstr. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Prog Mol Subcell Biol 41:251-75. 2006 - Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortiumTanja Woyke
DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598, USA
Nature 443:950-5. 2006..We propose a model that describes how the versatile metabolism within this symbiotic consortium provides the host with an optimal energy supply as it shuttles between the upper oxic and lower anoxic coastal sediments that it inhabits... - Enigmatic dual symbiosis in the excretory organ of Nautilus macromphalus (Cephalopoda: Nautiloidea)Mathieu Pernice
UMR 5178 Biologie des Organismes Marins et Ecosystèmes, Département Peuplements et Milieux Aquatiques, Museum national d histoire naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Proc Biol Sci 274:1143-52. 2007..FISH analyses showed that the symbionts occur in the baso-medial region of the pericardial villi where ultrafiltration and reabsorption processes take place, suggesting a symbiotic contribution to the excretory metabolism... - Acidovorax-like symbionts in the nephridia of earthwormsAndreas Schramm
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, D 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Environ Microbiol 5:804-9. 2003..Given the close phylogenetic relationship of the symbionts to proteolytic, free-living Acidovorax species, they may indeed play a role in protein degradation during nitrogen excretion by earthworms...