Biological Oceanography

(^) The vents are not only of biological interest. Seawater dissolves copious amounts of practically every eleme ...

rich in faults constituting a percolation system. The mafic (contraction of magnesium ferric, although the i ...

reactions producing organic matter, exactly the same reactions as the light- independent reaction ...

energy from oxidation of metallic ions, particularly Fe2+ → Fe3+ and Mn2+ to higher states (Jannasch ...

elaborate symbioses. This suggests that arctic vents (there are also some on the Gakkel Ridge far ...

chemoautotrophic potential. (^) Vents in the so-called back-arc systems of the northwestern Pacific are dominated ...

(^) The first visit to the Galapagos Rise vents produced sharp color photographs of clusters of ...

Glands in the vestimentum secrete the tube, increasing its length at the upper end. Its wall is leathery, a com ...

trunk called the trophosome. When the skin is opened, it looks like an elongated bunch of green ...

in vestimentiferan blood is of the order of 100-fold habitat levels, while S2– dissolved in coelomic fluid is ...

(^) Settlement, observed on plates set on near-vent substrate, begins a sequence of metamorphosis from ...

al. (1998) measured a gradient within the tubes from 80°C inside at the posterior end to 20°C at the ...

Fig. 15.5 Four-hour temperature time-series from 3 cm inside an occupied tube of Alvinella pompejana a ...

raising the temperature for a while in pressurized aquaria (Cottin et al. 2008). However, ...

collected from the bacterial fleece of one A. pompejana specimen from the East Pacific Rise ( ...

with the gonopore just behind the tuft of gills. Males have a modified pair of tentacles near t ...

cultures grow on the inner surfaces of the gill chambers. The shrimp achieves gas exchange for thi ...

suitable for navigating to sulfide sources. Olfactory response to sulfide is not unusual, you can smell it, but ...

stages of development. Clutches of eggs are produced and she attaches them to her legs for brooding. ...

remains to be learned, as does the means for distributing the product from these glandular t ...