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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, p. 6005-6007, Vol. 75, No. 18
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00689-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Genetic Subdivision of Chemosynthetic Endosymbionts of Solemya velum along the Southern New England Coast{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Frank J. Stewart,§ Alan Hyun Y. Baik, and Colleen M. Cavanaugh*

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Received 24 March 2009/ Accepted 15 July 2009

Population-level genetic diversity in the obligate symbiosis between the bivalve Solemya velum and its thioautotrophic bacterial endosymbiont was examined. Distinct populations along the New England coast shared a single mitochondrial genotype but were fixed for unique symbiont genotypes, indicating high levels of symbiont genetic structuring and potential symbiont-host decoupling.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, The Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone: (617) 495-2177. Fax: (617) 496-6933. E-mail: cavanaug{at}fas.harvard.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 24 July 2009.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

§ Present address: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Parsons Laboratory 48-208, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Present address: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, p. 6005-6007, Vol. 75, No. 18
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00689-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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