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    Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tube worm and less commonly known as the giant beardworm, is a marine invertebrate in the phylum Annelida...
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  • bristle-footed annelids or fan-head worms Siboglinidae, the family of beard worms Riftia pachyptila, a species known as giant tube worms Lamellibrachia, a genus...
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    Like other tube worms, vestimentiferans are benthic marine creatures. Riftia pachyptila, a vestimentiferan, is known only from the hydrothermal vent...
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    the coelom of tube worms (family Siboglinidae, e.g. the giant tube worm Riftia pachyptila) and in the body of symbiotic flatworms of the genus Paracatenula...
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    occurrences and uses of hemoglobin in organisms is in the giant tube worm (Riftia pachyptila, also called Vestimentifera), which can reach 2.4 meters length...
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    metabolite uptake by the deep sea vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Through his research Girguis found that Riftia tubeworms and their symbionts are capable...
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    ; et al. (1981). "Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worms Riftia Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts". Science. 213 (4505): 340–342...
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    binding them to a specialized hemoglobin molecule. Unlike the tube worms Riftia pachyptila that live at hydrothermal vents, L. luymesi uses a posterior...
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    appear to have a similar role in influencing the size of giant tube worms. Riftia pachyptila, which lives in hydrothermal vent communities at ambient temperatures...
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    regeneration of the oxaloacetate. The bacteria Gammaproteobacteria and Riftia pachyptila switch from the Calvin-Benson cycle to the rTCA cycle in response...
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