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| Title |
The giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its thiotrophic epibiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli: a model system to study interspecies cooperation
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, April 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00145 |
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| Authors |
Monika Bright, Salvador Espada-Hinojosa, Ilias Lagkouvardos, Jean-Marie Volland |
| Abstract |
Symbioses between chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing (thiotrophic) bacteria and protists or animals are among the most diverse and prevalent in the ocean. They are extremely difficult to maintain in aquaria and no thiotrophic symbiosis involving an animal host has ever been successfully cultivated. In contrast, we have cultivated the giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its obligate ectosymbiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli in small flow-through aquaria. This review provides an overview of the host and the symbiont and their phylogenetic relationships. We summarize our knowledge on the ecology, geographic distribution and life cycle of the host, on the vertical transmission of the symbiont, and on the cultivation of this symbiosis. We then discuss the benefits and costs involved in this cooperation compared with other thiotrophic symbioses and outline our view on the evolution and persistence of this byproduct mutualism. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 30% |
| Spain | 2 | 20% |
| Unknown | 5 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 5 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 3 | 30% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 66 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 23% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 13% |
| Researcher | 7 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 10 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 33% |
| Environmental Science | 10 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 11% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 11% |
| Unknown | 15 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 March 2023.
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#2,993
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#17
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