Journal
FISHERIES SCIENCE
Volume 78, Issue 1, Pages 139-146Publisher
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s12562-011-0419-7
Keywords
Chemosynthetic bacteria; Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH); Hydrothermal vents; Sulfide; Symbiosis
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- KAKENHI [19380110, 22380107]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21570061, 22380107, 19380110] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Various invertebrates inhabiting hydrothermal vents harbor thiotrophic endosymbionts that provide the host with nutrients and are possibly involved in the detoxification of harmful sulfides. In this study, we first determined the partial 16S rRNA gene sequence of the thiotrophic symbiont of the deep-sea mussel Bathymodiolus septemdierum, a dominant species at hydrothermal vents in the Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) area. We then designed a new probe, Bsob692, for fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) using regions completely conserved among thiotrophic symbionts of all bathymodiolin mussels and established the protocol for FISH to compare the distribution and amount of the symbiont using an image analysis program that is commercially available. We compared fluorescent intensity in the gill of the mussels collected at different sites and found a higher intensity in specimens collected from a site with higher sulfide concentration. We also compared mussels reared in the presence and absence of sulfide and found that the former had a higher fluorescent intensity.
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