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Annual Review of Microbiology

Volume 75, 2021

Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses

Abstract

Possibly the last discovery of a previously unknown major ecosystem on Earth was made just over half a century ago, when researchers found teaming communities of animals flourishing two and a half kilometers below the ocean surface at hydrothermal vents. We now know that these highly productive ecosystems are based on nutritional symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and eukaryotes and that these chemosymbioses are ubiquitous in both deep-sea and shallow-water environments. The symbionts are primary producers that gain energy from the oxidation of reduced compounds, such as sulfide and methane, to fix carbon dioxide or methane into biomass to feed their hosts. This review outlines how the symbiotic partners have adapted to living together. We first focus on the phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of these symbioses and then highlight selected research directions that could advance our understanding of the processes that shaped the evolutionary and ecological success of these associations.

Keyword(s): adaptations to symbiosis, chemosymbiosis, host-microbe associations, metabolism, methanotroph, nutritional interactions, thiotroph
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Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses
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