New type of symbiosis in the deep sea

New type of symbiosis in the deep sea

Male assels spider wears egg shells. © Shana K. Goffredi

The living environment around hydrothermal chimney and methane sources of the deep sea has hardly been researched so far. Now biologists have discovered three new types of asselsh spiders on such deep -sea chips in the Pacific that go into an unusual symbiosis: they cultivate bacteria on their bodies that feed on methane and methanol that from the

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