MICROBIOLOGY:
A Proteomic Snapshot of Life at a Vent
Charles R. Fisher1 and Peter Girguis2
Survival of a polychaete worm in a deep sea hydrothermal vent depends on complex metabolic interactions with symbiotic bacteria.
1C. R. Fisher is in the Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801, USA. cfisher{at}psu.edu
2P. Girguis is in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: pgirguis{at}oeb.harvard.edu