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Science 17 July 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4505, pp. 340 - 342
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4505.340
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Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts

COLLEEN M. CAVANAUGH 1, STEPHEN L. GARDINER 2, MEREDITH L. JONES 2, HOLGER W. JANNASCH 3, and JOHN B. WATERBURY 3

1 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
2 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
3 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

The existence of a symbiotic association between vestimentiferan tube worms from deep-sea hydrothermal vents and chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes, based on histological and enzymatic evidence, is suggested.

Submitted on October 20, 1980
Revised on February 19, 1981


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