Habitat Feature/Type
An non-permanent habitat where a whale has sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
What is a whale fall?
One of my nicknames is the zombie worm.
What is the bone-eating worm (Osedax)?
Conversion of sulfur into a usable form for the host.
What is sulfur oxidation?
Acquisition of symbionts from the environment.
What is horizontal transmission?
Name one animal that was listed in the Osman review paper but was not featured in the lecture.
What are corals/shrimps/crabs/nematodes/Pompeii worms/clam/mollusks?
Occurs from fluid leaking over fissures in the seafloor.
What is a cold seep?
I am a gastropod found at hydrothermal vents, one species has a furry-looking yellow shell.
What is a deep-sea snail/Alviniconcha?
A type of metabolism in deep-sea habitats involving methane.
What is methane oxidation?
Habitat that often occurs in the form of a brine pool.
What is a cold seep?
A method to visualize cross-sections of host cells and symbionts.
What is FISH (Fluorescence in situ hybridization)?
Habitat with chimneys that emit hot, anoxic, and enriched water.
What is a hydrothermal vent?
Endosymbionts are found here for sea anemones (Ostiactis) from Pescadero Basin.
What is the tentacle?
Dual symbiosis found in deep-sea mussels and snails involves ____ and ____.
What is sulfur oxidation and methane oxidation?
One of the factors that deep-sea animals need to adapt to.
What is light/pressure/temperature/food supply?
Flexibility between or combination of vertical and horizontal transmission of symbiont acquisition.
What is mixed transmission?
Hydrothermal vents are found along or nearby these features on the seafloor.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
The scientist that Rubyspira goffrediae is named after?
Who is Dr. Shana Goffredi?
The primary production in deep-sea habitats, unlike photosynthesis in the photic zone.
What is chemosynthesis?
A deep sea habitat where symbiosis occurs that is not whale falls, hydrothermal vents, or cold seeps.
What is a shipwreck?
Name one type of hydrothermal vent chimney.
What is black smoker/white smoker/carbonate chimneys?
After anaerobic decomposition, whale falls become a ____ habitat.
What is sulfidic?
Bivalve host that contains a dual symbiosis of methanotrophy and sulfur oxidation.
What is the deep sea mussel (Bathymodiolus)?
Assimilation of inorganic carbon into living organisms, which then get broken into organic compounds.
What is carbon fixation?
Sister genera names of deep-sea snails in the Indo-Pacific from Breusing 2022 paper.
What are Alviniconcha and Ifremeria?
Name of the special organ in the tube worm that contains endosymbionts.
What is the trophosome?