Open AccessMetatranscriptomics profile of the gill microbial community during <em>Bathymodiolus azoricus</em> aquarium acclimatization at atmospheric pressure
Author(s) -
Inês Barros,
Hugo J.C. Froufe,
George Marnellos,
Conceição Egas,
Jennifer A. Delaney,
Michele Clamp,
Ricardo Serrão Santos,
Raúl Bettencourt
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
aims microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.565
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2471-1888
DOI - 10.3934/microbiol.2018.2.240
Subject(s) - biology , mytilidae , acclimatization , hydrothermal vent , symbiosis , escape response , ecology , deep sea , zoology , microbial population biology , bivalvia , mollusca , fishery , bacteria , genetics , paleontology , hydrothermal circulation
The deep-sea mussels Bathymodiolus azoricus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) are the dominant macrofauna subsisting at the hydrothermal vents site Menez Gwen in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). Their adaptive success in such challenging environments is largely due to their gill symbiotic association with chemosynthetic bacteria. We examined the response of vent mussels as they adapt to sea-level environmental conditions, through an assessment of the relative abundance of host-symbiont related RNA transcripts to better understand how the gill microbiome may drive host-symbiont interactions in vent mussels during hypothetical venting inactivity.