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JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
Volume 88, Issue 5, Pages 909-912Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408001586
Keywords
Vestimentifera; chemosynthetic ecosystems; reproductive condition; wax esters
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- FCT [SFRH/BD/7084/2001]
- NERC [bas010013] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bas010013] Funding Source: researchfish
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/7084/2001] Funding Source: FCT
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Vestimentiferan tubeworms are significant members of deep-sea chemosynthetically-driven communities, including hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. The reproductive condition in this taxon is rarely studied because of sampling constraints inherent to these environments, and the lack of a simple methodology to quantify gonad development in vestimentiferans. We demonstrate that the amount of gonad found in the first 10 mm of trunk can be used as representative of the reproductive condition of the individual, and we establish a linear relationship between the amount of gonad and the proportion of wax ester in the trunk of female vestimentiferans. This relationship represents a new method for the determination of the reproductive condition in this group.
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