Chemosynthetic communities around deep-sea vents: Riftia tubeworms with endosymbiotic sulfur-oxidising bacteria, Alvinella 'Pompeii worm' at >80°C. Independent of photosynthesis; discovered 1977, widely considered a plausible analogue for…
Chemosynthetic communities around deep-sea vents: Riftia tubeworms with endosymbiotic sulfur-oxidising bacteria, Alvinella 'Pompeii worm' at >80°C. Independent of photosynthesis; discovered 1977, widely considered a plausible analogue for…