Thermal Limit for Metazoan Life in Question: In Vivo Heat Tolerance of the Pompeii Worm

Archive ouverte | Ravaux, Juliette | CCSD

International audience. The thermal limit for metazoan life, expected to be around 50uC, has been debated since the discovery of the Pompeii worm Alvinella pompejana, which colonizes black smoker chimney walls at de...

Temperature resistance studies on the deep-sea vent shrimp Mirocaris fortunata

Archive ouverte | Shillito, Bruce | CCSD

Global depression in gene expression as a response to rapid thermal changes in vent mussels

Archive ouverte | Legendre, Pierre | CCSD

International audience. Hydrothermal vent mussels belonging to the genus Bathymodiolus are distributed worldwide and dominate communities at shallow Atlantic hydrothermal sites. While organisms inhabiting coastal ec...