Evolutionary process of deep-sea bathymodiolus mussels.

Miyazaki J., de Oliveira Martins L., Fujita Y., Matsumoto H., Fujiwara Y.. (2010)

PLoS ONE, 5, e10363

Since the discovery of deep-sea chemosynthesis-based communities, much work has been done to clarify their organismal and environmental aspects. However, major topics remain to be resolved, including when and how organisms invade and adapt to deep-sea environments; whether strategies for invasion and adaptation are shared by different taxa or unique to each taxon; how organisms extend their distribution and diversity; and how they become isolated to speciate in continuous waters. Deep-sea mussels are one of the dominant organisms in chemosynthesis-based communities, thus investigations of their origin and evolution contribute to resolving questions about life in those communities.

PLoS ONE, 5, e10363

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