Nature Communications (Feb 2021)
Hologenome analysis reveals dual symbiosis in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent snail Gigantopelta aegis
- Yi Lan,
- Jin Sun,
- Chong Chen,
- Yanan Sun,
- Yadong Zhou,
- Yi Yang,
- Weipeng Zhang,
- Runsheng Li,
- Kun Zhou,
- Wai Chuen Wong,
- Yick Hang Kwan,
- Aifang Cheng,
- Salim Bougouffa,
- Cindy Lee Van Dover,
- Jian-Wen Qiu,
- Pei-Yuan Qian
Affiliations
- Yi Lan
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Jin Sun
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Chong Chen
- X-STAR, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
- Yanan Sun
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Yadong Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
- Yi Yang
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Weipeng Zhang
- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China
- Runsheng Li
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong
- Kun Zhou
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Wai Chuen Wong
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Yick Hang Kwan
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Aifang Cheng
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Salim Bougouffa
- Computational Bioscience Research Centre, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Cindy Lee Van Dover
- Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
- Jian-Wen Qiu
- Department of Biology and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Hong Kong Baptist University
- Pei-Yuan Qian
- Department of Ocean Science, Division of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21450-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 15
Abstract
Symbiotic partners are rarely studied in equal depth. By assembling new genomes, Lan et al. report a novel dual symbiosis in the snail Gigantopelta aegis with two evolutionarily distant gammaproteobacterial endosymbionts: one which oxidises sulfur, the other, methane in a metabolically mutualistic relationship.
