The Vent and Seep Biota: Aspects from Microbes to by Steffen Kiel

By Steffen Kiel

Oases of existence round black people who smoke and hydrocarbon seeps within the deep-sea have been one of the so much miraculous medical discoveries of the prior 3 many years. those ecosystems are ruled via animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their examine constructed into a world, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists enhance new applied sciences to paintings in the most severe areas on the earth. This publication highlights discoveries, advancements, and advances made in the past 10 years, together with notable situations of host-symbiont coevolution, worms dwelling on frozen methane, and a fossil list offering insights into the dynamic historical past of those ecosystems because the Paleozoic.

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