A glimpse of deep-sea adaptation in chemosynthetic holobionts: Depressurization causes DNA fragmentation and cell death of methanotrophic endosymbionts rather than their deep-sea Bathymodiolinae host

Chen, H; Wang, MX; Li, MN; Lian, C; Zhou, L; Zhang, X; Zhang, H; Zhong, ZS; Wang, H; Cao, L; Li, CL

Li, CL (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, 7 Nanhai Rd, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China.

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 2021; 30 (10): 2298

Abstract

Bathymodiolinae mussels are typical species in deep-sea cold seeps and hydrothermal vents and an ideal model for investigating chemosynthetic symbiosi......

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