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Science 21 January 1983:
Vol. 219. no. 4582, pp. 295 - 297
DOI: 10.1126/science.219.4582.295
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Sulfide Binding by the Blood of the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila

ALISSA J. ARP 1 and JAMES J. CHILDRESS 1

1 Oceanic Biology Group, Department of Biology and Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106

The blood of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tube worm Riftia pachyptila Jones contains a sulfide-binding protein that appears to concentrate sulfide from the environment and may function for sulfide transport to the internal endosymbiotic bacteria contained within the coelomic organ, the trophosome.

Submitted on July 22, 1982
Revised on October 4, 1982


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