Discovery of deep-sea coral symbionts from a novel clade of marine bacteria with severely reduced genomes
Samuel A. Vohsen, Harald R. Gruber-Vodicka, Santiago Herrera, Nicole Dubilier, Charles R. Fisher, Iliana B. Baums · 2024
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Samuel Vohsen and five co-authors report in 2024 the discovery of two bacterial tenants living inside a deep-sea coral, members of an entirely new branch of marine bacteria. Most coral microbiology comes from sunlit reefs; the deep ocean's corals were near blank pages.
The bacteria dominate the inner tissue of the octocoral Callogorgia delta across its range, yet are absent from the surrounding water. Their stripped-down genomes lack even basic sugar burning; they live on arginine supplied by the coral itself. Such total dependence makes them true symbionts, and their strange toolkit rewrites what this bacterial family can be.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Samuel A. Vohsen, Harald R. Gruber-Vodicka, Santiago Herrera, Nicole Dubilier, Charles R. Fisher, Iliana B. Baums |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |