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- Title
Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents.
- Authors
Van Dover, C L; Humphris, S E; Fornari, D; Cavanaugh, C M; Collier, R; Goffredi, S K; Hashimoto, J; Lilley, M D; Reysenbach, A L; Shank, T M; Von Damm, K L; Banta, A; Gallant, R M; Gotz, D; Green, D; Hall, J; Harmer, T L; Hurtado, L A; Johnson, P; McKiness, Z P; Meredith, C; Olson, E; Pan, I L; Turnipseed, M; Won, Y; Young, C R, 3rd; Vrijenhoek, R C
- Abstract
Within the endemic invertebrate faunas of hydrothermal vents, five biogeographic provinces are recognized. Invertebrates at two Indian Ocean vent fields (Kairei and Edmond) belong to a sixth province, despite ecological settings and invertebrate-bacterial symbioses similar to those of both western Pacific and Atlantic vents. Most organisms found at these Indian Ocean vent fields have evolutionary affinities with western Pacific vent faunas, but a shrimp that ecologically dominates Indian Ocean vents closely resembles its Mid-Atlantic counterpart. These findings contribute to a global assessment of the biogeography of chemosynthetic faunas and indicate that the Indian Ocean vent community follows asymmetric assembly rules biased toward Pacific evolutionary alliances.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2001, Vol 294, Issue 5543, p818
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1064574