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

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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...

Identification of differentially expressed genes in the hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata exposed to heat stress

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International audience. The deep-sea vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata dominates the vagile megafauna at most vent sites along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This shrimp swarms around the hot end of the hydrothermal biotope ...

First hsp70 from two hydrothermal vent shrimps, Mirocaris fortunata and Rimicaris exoculata: characterization and sequence analysis

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