A trophosome is a highly vascularised organ found in some animals that houses symbiotic bacteria that provide food for their host. Trophosomes are contained...

to the trophosome, which is suspended in paired coelomic cavities and is where the intracellular symbiotic bacteria are found. The trophosome is a soft...

The symbionts are housed in bacteriocytes in a specialized organ, the trophosome (Greek τροφος trophos ‘food’). Ca. Riegeria can make up half of the worms'...

methane-oxidizing bacteria living in an internal organ, the trophosome. One gram of trophosome tissue can contain one billion bacteria. The origin of this...

photosynthesis to develop later. Giant tube worms use bacteria in their trophosome to fix carbon dioxide (using hydrogen sulfide as their energy source)...

Chromoplast Gerontoplast Leucoplast Apicoplast Kappa organism Organs Bacteriome Trophosome Abiogenesis Last universal common ancestor Earliest known life forms ...

worm benefits. These bacteria reside in a specialized organ called the Trophosome. Some worms have an extendable pharynx or a proboscis for consuming prey...

Chromoplast Gerontoplast Leucoplast Apicoplast Kappa organism Organs Bacteriome Trophosome Abiogenesis Last universal common ancestor Earliest known life forms ...

Chromoplast Gerontoplast Leucoplast Apicoplast Kappa organism Organs Bacteriome Trophosome Abiogenesis Last universal common ancestor Earliest known life forms ...

each chromosome—including two copies of the mother's complete genome. Trophosome — organ found in some marine worms that contain symbiotic, chemosynthetic...