Table 1 Nitrogen processing metabolic potential of Lucinid symbiont species.

From: Gene loss and symbiont switching during adaptation to the deep sea in a globally distributed symbiosis

 

Sedimenticola

Ca. Thiodiazotropha

Thiohalomonadales

Feature

endophacoides

Myrt1

Taylori

Lotti

weberae

Ctena1

Ctena2

Ctena3

endolucinida

Leuco2

Aeq1

Lucinoma1

gloverae

Thiohalo2

Thiohalo4

Diazotrophy, nitrogenase

  

+

+

+

+

+

+

+*

    

+

 

Respiratory nitrate reductase

        

+

+

+

+

+

  

Periplasmic nitrate reductase

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

 

+

+

+

+

Assimilatory nitrate reductase

  

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

    

+

+

Nitrite reductase NADPH subunit

 

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

 

+

+

+

+

Copper-containing nitrite reductase (NO-forming)

 

+

 

+

 

+

+

+

+

+

 

+

+

+

+

Nitric oxide reductase

+

+

+

+

+

+

 

+

+

+

  

+

+

+

Nitrous-oxide reductase

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

 

+

+

+

+

Cyanate hydratase

     

+

+

+

+

+

 

+

+

  

Urea metabolism

+

 

+

 

+

          

Allophonate utilization

  

+

+

+

          

Ammonia assimilation

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

  1. Only lucinid symbiont species groups (Sedimenticola, Ca. Thiodiazotropha, and Thiohalomonadales) with three or more MAGs are shown. Smaller group information can be found in Tables S5 and S7.
  2. + gene(s) within a pathway are present in all the high-quality MAGs; -, gene(s) within the pathway were absent from all the high-quality MAGs.
  3. * Genes are present in a majority of the MAGs but not all.
  4. ** Genes are not present in MAGs but predicted proteins from the unbinned metagenomes were found with the same function and a taxonomy within the same Order as the MAG.