Lateral Symbiont Acquisition in a Maternally Transmitted Chemosynthetic Clam Endosymbiosis
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Lateral symbiont acquisition in a maternally transmitted chemosynthetic clam endosymbiosis.
Deep-sea clams of the family Vesicomyidae live in symbiosis with intracellular chemosynthetic bacteria. These symbionts are transmitted maternally (vertically) between host generations and should therefore show a pattern of genetic variation paralleling that of the cotransmitted host mitochondrion. However, instances of lateral (nonvertical) symbiont acquisition could still occur, thereby decou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn010