Abstract
The marine worm Olavius algarvensis furnishes its closely associated bacteria with carbon monoxide and hydrogen as energy sources, while they, in turn, enabled it to rid itself of its gut and kidneys by drawing on its metabolites to meet their need for organic carbon compounds, according to Nicole Dubilier and Manuel Kleiner at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiol-ogy in Bremen, Germany, and their collaborators. Separately, the diversity of marine microorganisms exceeds current estimates, basing his estimates on an early analysis of samples from the recently completed Tara Oceans expedition, a three-year voyage to sample marine plankton ecosystems as well as viruses and bacteria, says Jeroen Raes of Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium. He and Dubilier spoke last June, during the conference “Marine Microbes: Bridging the Gaps from Genomes to Biomes,” held in Lucca, Italy.
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