Biologie et Ecologie des Ecosystèmes Marins Profonds

Endogenous rhythms in deep-sea mussel cell culture and molecular clock characterization

Abstract While biological rhythms are crucial to life, the deep sea has long been considered an arrhythmic exception. However, at hydrothermal vents - devoid of diel cues yet shaped by tides - the mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus shows both tidal and, unexpectedly, circadian rhythms...