Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tube worm and less commonly known as the giant beardworm, is a marine invertebrate in the phylum Annelida...
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Like other tube worms, vestimentiferans are benthic marine creatures. Riftia pachyptila, a vestimentiferan, is known only from the hydrothermal vent...
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the coelom of tube worms (family Siboglinidae, e.g. the giant tube worm Riftia pachyptila) and in the body of symbiotic flatworms of the genus Paracatenula...
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bristle-footed annelids or fan-head worms Siboglinidae, the family of beard worms Riftia pachyptila, a species known as giant tube worms Lamellibrachia, a genus...
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occurrences and uses of hemoglobin in organisms is in the giant tube worm (Riftia pachyptila, also called Vestimentifera), which can reach 2.4 meters length...
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appear to have a similar role in influencing the size of giant tube worms. Riftia pachyptila, which lives in hydrothermal vent communities at ambient temperatures...
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; et al. (1981). "Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worms Riftia Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts". Science. 213 (4505): 340–342...
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binding them to a specialized hemoglobin molecule. Unlike the tube worms Riftia pachyptila that live at hydrothermal vents, L. luymesi uses a posterior...
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zones. One example is the symbiotic relationship between the tube worm Riftia and chemosynthetic bacteria. It is this chemosynthesis that supports the...
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researchers placed embryos in 3 areas, (I1) at the base of the chimney, (I2) in a Riftia pachyptila colony and (I3) in an adult colony. Results are presented in...
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termites, or those near hydrothermal vents, such as worms of the genus Riftia. The only life left on the Earth after this will be single-celled organisms...
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regeneration of the oxaloacetate. The bacteria Gammaproteobacteria and Riftia pachyptila switch from the Calvin-Benson cycle to the rTCA cycle in response...
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ancient circumvent ecosystems, supporting large complex life forms such as Riftia pachyptila. Similar environments may be found in oceans pressurised beneath...
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metabolite uptake by the deep sea vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Through his research Girguis found that Riftia tubeworms and their symbionts are capable...
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the species that inhabit a hydrothermal vent are Tevnia jerichonana, and Riftia pachyptila. One discovered community, dubbed "Eel City", consists predominantly...
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are found around volcanic vents. For example, there are giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) 1.5 m in length and clams (Calyptogena magnifica) 30 cm long...
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and "Candidatus Endoriftia persephone" (symbiont of the giant tubeworm Riftia pachyptila) may use the rTCA cycle in addition to the CBB cycle, and may...
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Waterbury JB (July 1981). "Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts". Science. 213 (4505)...
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Riftia tube worm colony at warm vent at Galapagos Rift...
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deep-sea worm Tenvia jerichoana is closely related to the deep-sea worm Riftia pachyptila. They both rely exclusively on a single species of sulfide-oxidizing...
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these compounds with syntrophic partners). Of note are the colonies of Riftia tubeworms, Beggiatoa and other microbial mats, and thermophilic microbes...
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circumvental ecosystems such as these support complex life on Earth such as Riftia pachyptila that exist completely independent of the surface biosphere. Tingay...
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of the food chain and are able to support a variety of organisms such as Riftia pachyptila and Alvinella pompejana. These organisms use this symbiotic relationship...
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Lamellibrachia is a genus of tube worms related to the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila. They live at deep-sea cold seeps where hydrocarbons (oil and...
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"giant tube worm" has also been applied to the hydrothermal vent species Riftia pachyptila, which is indeed a worm, an annelid. The sole living species...
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trophosome is unique to tube worms. It was found to house bacterial symbiotes in Riftia. Like other tube worms, they lack a digestive tract. In order to survive...
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as termites or those near hydrothermal vents such as worms of the genus Riftia. As a result of these processes, multicellular life forms may be extinct...
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divergence. 1973. Passage of the U. S. Endangered Species Act of 1973. 1977. Riftia pachyptila, the giant tube worm, discovered. 1980. Founding of PETA, People...
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Pablo. (2013) "Understanding the symbiosis between the giant tubeworm Riftia pachyptila and chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria" University of...
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Cavanaugh was the first to propose that the deep-sea giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila, obtains its food from bacteria living within its cells, an insight...
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