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Jul 2026
Symbiosis reshapes metabolism of sulfate-reducing bacteria in gutless marine worms.
It is revealed that a globally distributed clade of symbiotic SRB has a conserved core metabolism that diverges from free-living relatives, and these endosymbionts retain key traits of SRB such as sulfate reduction, complete oxidation of acetate to CO2, amino acid degradation for nitrogen acquisition, and transport of...
G. D'Angelo, Manuel Kleiner, A. Mankowski et al.
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