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Nematode community composition in hydrothermal vent and adjacent non-vent fields around Myojin Knoll, a seamount on the Izu-Ogasawara Arc in the western North Pacific Ocean

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In contrast to specific large benthic invertebrates in chemosynthetic ecosystems such as hydrothermal vents, meiofaunal communities in such habitats have been reported to have strong taxonomic overlap with meiofauna in the adjacent “normal” environments. However, meiofauna have only recently been included in studies of those environments and detailed information on these communities is still rare. This is especially true in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, even though there are many seamounts with active vents in the calderas of the region. Nematode community composition at the genus level in sediments from a hydrothermal vent field in the caldera of Myojin Knoll (32°06′N, 139°52′E, depth 1,300 m), a seamount on the Izu-Ogasawara Arc, Japan, was investigated for the first time and was compared with adjacent non-vent areas inside and outside the caldera. Multivariate analyses showed that the composition of nematodes in the hydrothermal field was significantly different from that in the non-hydrothermal fields around the caldera. However, the common genera, such as Oxystomina, Pareudesmoscolex, Desmoscolex, and Microlaimus were found in two, or all three vent fields while their rank contributions differed among the three fields. When the data from Myojin Knoll were compared with those from other deep-sea vent environments in different regions (e.g., North Fiji Basin, East Pacific Rise, Mid-Atlantic Ridge), the nematode composition in the vent field of the Myojin caldera was more similar to that of the non-vent fields around the caldera than the composition in vent fields of other regions. These data from the Northwest Pacific Ocean also suggest the absence of long-range transport systems and local adaptations for meiofauna in hydrothermal vent fields.

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We are grateful to the crews and staff of the RV Natsushima and the ROV Hyper-Dolphin of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Special thanks to two anonymous reviewers, who kindly checked our manuscript.

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  1. Aitsu Marine Station, Center for Marine Environment Studies, Kumamoto University, 6061 Aitsu, Matsushima, Kami-amakusa, 861-6102, Kumamoto, Japan

    Yuka Setoguchi & Motohiro Shimanaga

  2. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

    Hidetaka Nomaki, Hiromi Watanabe & Nanako O. Ogawa

  3. Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

    Tomo Kitahashi & Koji Inoue

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Setoguchi, Y., Nomaki, H., Kitahashi, T. et al. Nematode community composition in hydrothermal vent and adjacent non-vent fields around Myojin Knoll, a seamount on the Izu-Ogasawara Arc in the western North Pacific Ocean. Mar Biol 161, 1775–1785 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-014-2460-4

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