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TI A Mussel's Life Around Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
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AF Duperron, Sebastien
   Gaudron, Sylvie M.
   Laming, Sven
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C1 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle–UMR7245 (MNHN CNRS) Mécanismes de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes (MCAM), Paris, France
   Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
   UMR 8187 Laboratoire d’Océanologie et Géosciences (Univ. Lille, CNRS, Univ. Côte d’Opale), Wimereux, France
   Sorbonne Université, UFR927 and UFR918, Paris, France
   Sorbonne Université, UMR 7208 BOREA (CNRS), Paris, France
   UMR6197 Laboratoire deMicrobiologie des Environnements Extrêmes and Laboratoire Environnement Profond, Ifremer (UBO, CNRS) CS 10070, Plouzané, France
C2 MNHN, FRANCE
   INST UNIV FRANCE, FRANCE
   UNIV LILLE, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
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SE PDG-REM-EEP-LEP
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UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00500/61188/64718.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR BIOBAZ 2013
BO Pourquoi pas ?
AB Hydrothermal vents are places where seawater exits cracks in the sea floor, having been super-heated and enriched with metals and minerals deep in the underlying bedrock. They are an example of an ecosystem based on chemosynthesis, where life is sustained by energy from chemicals rather than energy from sunlight. The discovery of an abundance of life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents emitting hot and toxic fluids demonstrated that animals and other organisms could thrive in the dark, cold and high-pressure deep oceans. Mussels are among the most studied animals found near hydrothermal vents. Scientists discovered that mussels rely on a close, living relationship—a “symbiosis”—with bacteria for their nutrition. In this symbiosis, bacteria use chemicals from the hydrothermal fluid and seawater to produce organic compounds, while the mussels provide the bacteria with essential compounds and protection. The mussel life cycle is uniquely adapted to finding and colonizing their unusual habitat and then finding suitable symbiotic bacteria, almost immediately. Despite its remoteness, the deep sea is already under threat. Although there is still much work to be done, research into mussels and other animals that have evolved similar symbioses has revealed not only their beauty, but also their fragility. 
PY 2019
PD MAY
SO Frontiers for Young Minds
SN 2296-6846
PU Frontiers Media SA
VL 7
IS 76
DI 10.3389/frym.2019.00076
ID 61188
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