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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6835
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-17
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Stable associations of more than one species of symbiont within a single host cell or tissue are assumed to be rare in metazoans because competition for space and resources between symbionts can be detrimental to the host. In animals with multiple endosymbionts, such as mussels from deep-sea hydrothermal vents and reef-building corals, the costs of competition between the symbionts are outweighed by the ecological and physiological flexibility gained by the hosts. A further option for the coexistence of multiple symbionts within a host is if these benefit directly from one another, but such symbioses have not been previously described. Here we show that in the gutless marine oligochaete Olavius algarvensis, endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing bacteria produce sulphide that can serve as an energy source for sulphide-oxidizing symbionts of the host. Thus, these symbionts do not compete for resources but rather share a mutalistic relationship with each other in an endosymbiotic sulphur cycle, in addition to their symbiotic relationship with the oligochaete host.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
411
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
298-302
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Aerobiosis, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Agar, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Carbon Dioxide, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Deltaproteobacteria, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Gammaproteobacteria, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Likelihood Functions, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Microscopy, Electron, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Oligochaeta, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Oxidation-Reduction, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-RNA, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Silicon Dioxide, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Sulfates, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Sulfides, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Sulfur, pubmed-meshheading:11357130-Symbiosis
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm.
pubmed:affiliation
Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. ndubilie@mpi-bremen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't