Sulfide Binding by the Blood of the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila
- 21 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 219 (4582), 295-297
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.219.4582.295
Abstract
The blood of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tube worm Riftia pachyptila Jones contains a sulfide-binding protein that appears to concentrate sulfide from the environment and may function for sulfide transport to the internal endosymbiotic bacteria contained within the coelomic organ, the trophosome.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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