Lipids and their delta C-13 values reveal carbon assimilation and cycling in the methane-seep tubeworm Paraescarpia echinospica from the South China Sea

Guan, HX; Birgel, D; Feng, D; Peckmann, J; Liu, L; Liu, LH; Tao, J

Guan, HX (corresponding author), Ocean Univ China, Frontiers Sci Ctr Deep Ocean Multispheres & Earth, Key Lab Submarine Geosci & Prospecting Tech, MOE, Qingdao 266100, Peoples R China.; Guan, HX (corresponding author), Ocean Univ China, Coll Marine Geosci, Qingdao 266100, Peoples R China.

DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS, 2021; 174 ():

Abstract

Gutless tubeworms obtain their nutrition from their bacterial endosymbiotic partners, and the metazoan hosts provide the bacteria with sulfide, carbon......

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