title: Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents.
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.
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA. cindy_vandover@wm.edu
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mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D005075:Biological Evolution; D018533:Biomass; D033364:Decapoda / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology; D017753:Ecosystem; D019605:Euryarchaeota / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D005843:Geography; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000382:microbiology; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000145:classification / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008974:Mollusca / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D012623:Seawater; D013559:Symbiosis