Bathymodiolus is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracellular chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts.
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species within the genus Bathymodiolus include: Bathymodiolus childressi Gustafson, Lutz, Turner & Vrijenhoek, 1998 Bathymodiolus japonicus Hashimoto & Okutani...
Bathymodiolus childressi is a species of deepwater mussel, a marine bivalve mollusk species in the family Mytilidae, the mussels. Although this species...
Bathymodiolus thermophilus is a species of large, deep water mussel, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae, the true mussels. The species was...
Bathymodiolus marisindicus is a species of deepwater hydrothermal vent mussel, a marine bivalve mollusk species in the family Mytilidae, the mussels....
Jo, and Robert C. Vrijenhoek. "Evolutionary relationships within the Bathymodiolus childressi group." Cahiers de biologie marine 47.4 (2006): 403. von...
also form near the cold seep. Mostly composed of species in the genus Bathymodiolus, these mussels do not directly consume food; Instead, they are nourished...
threads ("beard") to a firm substrate. A few species (in the genus Bathymodiolus) have colonised hydrothermal vents associated with deep ocean ridges...
Bathynerita naticoidea can detect mussel beds containing the mussel Bathymodiolus childressi, because it is attracted to water that has cues in it from...
temperatures mean that growth rates are very slow. The giant mussel, Bathymodiolus thermophilus, and the giant white clam, Calyptogena magnifica, both...
because they are associated with the fauna that thrives in them, like Bathymodiolus mussels and vestimentiferan tubeworms, but they are also attracted to...
cannot move over mud or on soft sediments, and usually lives on beds of Bathymodiolus childressi mussels. T. naticoidea can detect beds of B. childressi,...
Charles R. (September 2000). "Growth and Condition of Seep Mussels (Bathymodiolus Childressi) at a Gulf of Mexico Brine Pool". Ecology. 81 (9): 2392–2403...
chemosynthetic bacteria that have been discovered associated with mussels (Bathymodiolus) located near hydrothermal vents have a gene that enables them to utilize...
from the genus of Amphritea which has been isolated from the mussel Bathymodiolus from the Logatchev hydrothermal vent field. Parte, A.C. "Amphritea"...
chemosynthetic bacteria that have been discovered associated with mussels (Bathymodiolus) located near hydrothermal vents have a gene that enables them to utilize...
(6,170–8,920 ft). A. komaii is common among chemoautotrophic mussel, Bathymodiolus brevior. Alvinocaris longirostris Kikuchi & Ohta, 1995 – West Pacific...
"Tissue partitioning of micro-essential metals in the vent bivalve Bathymodiolus azoricus and associated organisms (endosymbiont bacteria and a parasite...
metabolites of the fungi Pencillum sp. KWF32 isolated from the tissues of Bathymodiolus sp. collected in the cold spring area of the South China Sea in 2021...
"Tissue partitioning of micro-essential metals in the vent bivalve Bathymodiolus azoricus and associated organisms (endosymbiont bacteria and a parasite...
"Tissue partitioning of micro-essential metals in the vent bivalve Bathymodiolus azoricus and associated organisms (endosymbiont bacteria and a parasite...
extreme. A site called "Mussel bed" is covered with mussels of the Bathymodiolus genus, which cover an area of about 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft)...
"Symbiotic Assimilation of CO2 in Two Hydrothermal Vent Animals, the Mussel Bathymodiolus thermophilus and the Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila". The Biological Bulletin...
of many kinds of decapods and mollusks, such as Alvinocarididae and Bathymodiolus respectively, feeding where nutrient-rich vent fluids interact with...
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