Composition of free amino acids and related compounds in invertebrates with symbiotic bacteria at hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico

Agriculture & Biology

• Gulf of Mexico 80%
• Bivalvia 66%
• free amino acids 65%
• glycine (amino acid) 63%
• hydrocarbons 61%
• taurine 56%
• invertebrates 55%
• bacteria 36%
• molluscs 33%
• glutamates 31%
• amino compounds 25%
• glutamic acid 16%
• symbionts 16%
• symbiosis 15%
• alanine 15%
• gills 14%
• antioxidants 10%
• diet 8%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• hydrocarbon seep 100%
• amino acid 61%
• invertebrate 57%
• bivalve 51%
• gulf 49%
• bacterium 42%
• mollusc 27%
• symbiont 16%
• symbiosis 15%
• antioxidant 14%
• diet 11%
• sulfur 10%
• acid 8%
• distribution 4%