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First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878

Kevin Zelnio September 8, 2010 Anders Warén Best of Zelnio Brooding Chemoautotrophy Hydrothermal Vents ifremeria larvae

What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…

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Ecology New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Repost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane Seeps

Dr. M January 18, 2010 active gas seepage Carbon carbonate Chemoautotrophy Coral deep sea energy food chains gas Gulf of Mexico Lophelia pertusa Methane Seeps Nitrogen oil Open Lab 2009 Provanna Sculpta Stable Isotopes sulfur Trophic Ecology

This is a repost of KZ’s winning post for Open Laboratory 2009: The Best Science Writing on the Web. Congrats to KZ! ———————————————————————————————————— This is…

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Adaptations

From The Desk of Zelnio: Alviniconcha hessleri

Kevin Zelnio March 28, 2007 Alviniconcha Back-Arc Basin Bacteria Best of Zelnio Biofilm Chemoautotrophy Gastropoda Hemocyanin Hydrothermal Vent Mixotrophy Mollusca Proteobacteria Provanna Provannidae Snail Thermo-Chemico Tolerance

Alviniconcha hessleri (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Provannidae) When you think of hydrothermal vents, what comes to mind first? Is it the gushing black smoke out of a…

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