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MEPS 231:115-120 (2002)
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Abstract
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Glycogen storage in the Riftia pachyptila trophosome: contribution of host and symbionts
Angelika Sorgo1, Francoise Gaill2, Jean-Pierre Lechaire2, Cordelia Arndt2,3, Monika Bright1,*
1Department of Marine Biology, Institute of Ecology and Conservation Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
2Biologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire du Developpement, Biologie Marine UMR 7622 CNRS, Université P. et M. Curie, 7 Quai Saint Bernard, 75252 Paris, France
3Marine Biology Research Division-0202, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
*Corresponding author. E-mail: monika.bright@univie.ac.at
ABSTRACT: Glycogen storage in host tissue and symbiotic bacteria in the anterior trophosome of the vestimentiferan tubeworm Riftia pachyptila Jones, 1981, was investigated using transmission electron microscope and stereological methods. The
relative glycogen content (RGC) of each partner was calculated from the percentage of host and bacterial cytoplasm area taken up by glycogen and from the percentage area that host and symbionts occupy within a trophosome lobule section. Our results show
that host and symbionts contribute equally to the total glycogen content of the trophosome; this ratio remains similar for up to 40 h of hypoxia. Furthermore, there is a glycogen gradient in the lobule. In both symbiotic partners, the glycogen content
increased from the lobule center toward the periphery, implying different metabolic activities of host cells and bacteria depending on their location within a trophosome lobule.
KEY WORDS: Glycogen · Riftia pachyptila · Symbiosis · Trophosome · Chemoautotrophic bacteria · Hydrothermal vents
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Published in MEPS Vol.
231
(2002) on April 23
Print ISSN: 0171-8630; Online ISSN: 1616-1599.
Copyright © Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, 2002
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