The Longqi vent field, situated on the Southwest Indian Ridge, is ecologically distinct among known hydrothermal vents fields. It hosts a combination of previously unknown species and those shared at species or genus level with other hydrothermal vents on the Central Indian Ridge (CIR) and East Scotia Ridge (ESR). We investigate the size-based and trophodynamics of consumers at Longqi vent field and compared these with ESR and...

To analyse the role of thyroid hormones in development of the halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus , a cDNA library was constructed from mRNA isolated from metamorphosing halibut larvae and approximately 500 000 recombinants were screened using a probe derived from the thyroid hormone receptor (TR)‐α gene of the frog Xenopus laevis . A single positive clone was isolated and sequenced. It was found to contain the entire coding seq...