Yum – Carbon monoxide, worms, bacteria – all together – what could be better

Just a quick one here pointing people to a paper and some stories relating to work by Nicole Dubilier on the worm Olavius algarvensis and it’s chemosynthetic symbionts.

• The paper: “Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use”: Full Text (They paid for the PNAS Open Access option)
• Research | Research news | A toxic menu
• Elba: Scientists study gutless marine worm
• Protein analysis investigates marine worm community (Press Release)
• La asombrosa simbiosis de un gusano con bacterias le permite …
• Un ver marin qui se nourrit de composés toxiques
• Seltsamer Meereswurm ernährt sich von Giften

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen