Fortuitous insights into the ecology of a recently charted deep-sea hydrothermal vent, using snails’ feet.

Patrick C. Collins, William Hunter, Jeanette Carlsson, Jens Carlsson

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Abstract

Here we present the results from a shotgun sequencing effort on foot tissues from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent endemic limpet. We present the complete mitochondrial genome of the hydrothermal vent endemic gastropod Peltospira smaragdina (Gastropoda, Peltospiridae) is presented here for the first time. This species is characteristic of circa-Azores hydrothermal vent ecoregion and provides a candidate environmental DNA (eDNA) indicator of active hydrothermal vent sites. The results also suggest that the epilithic biofilm on the newly discovered Moytirra hydrothermal vents is dominated by Sulfurimonas –like microbes and corresponds with similar studies on hydrothermal hosted microbial communities. The association between Peltospira and Sulfurimonas is presented as potentially a holobiontic relationship, with both the snail and the microbial biofilm. We highlight the efficacy of using non-traditional sampling to develop a broader ecosystem understanding. 
Original languageEnglish
Article number103358
Number of pages4
JournalDeep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Volume163
Early online date25 Jul 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 1 Sept 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support from Science Foundation Ireland grant 12/IP/1308 . The sampling expedition, VENTuRE survey, was principally funded by the Marine Institute under the 2011 Ship-Time Programme of the National Development Plan and by the National Geographic Society with additional support from National Geographic Television , National Oceanography Centre , UK , University of Southampton , UK , Geological Survey of Ireland ( INFOMAR programme), University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway . We thank Cindy Van Dover for assistance in accessing the Ion Torrent sequencing facility at Duke University.

Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support from Science Foundation Ireland grant 12/IP/1308. The sampling expedition, VENTuRE survey, was principally funded by the Marine Institute under the 2011 Ship-Time Programme of the National Development Plan and by the National Geographic Society with additional support from National Geographic Television, National Oceanography Centre, UK, University of Southampton, UK, Geological Survey of Ireland (INFOMAR programme), University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway. We thank Cindy Van Dover for assistance in accessing the Ion Torrent sequencing facility at Duke University.

Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords

  • Biofilm
  • Hydrothermal vent
  • Ion torrent
  • Mitochondrial genome
  • Next generation sequencing
  • Peltospira smaragdina
  • Sulfurimonas

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