“The Movile Cave system is similar to deep sea vents in having a chemoautotrophic food base and a diverse biota. However, the cave system appears to lack the symbioses between chemo-autotrophic ...
These thick biofilms, called microbial mats, are fueled by photosynthetic fixation of carbon into organic molecules, in contrast to the chemoautotrophic-based carbon fixation found at the deep-sea ...
marine–invertebrate chemoautotrophic tissues and zooxanthellae-hosting cnidarian epithelia. These symbioses are fascinating in their own right, but because they are often simple, involving just ...