Pierre Methou

The paper characterizes two new gastropod holobionts from Atlantic hydrothermal vents, revealing distinct levels of endosymbiosis dependence through metagenomic and anatomical analyses.

The paper identifies widespread ciliate epibionts on shrimp gills in deep-sea vents and seeps, revealing their biogeographic patterns and facultative associations.

This study examines the evolutionary emergence of chemosymbiosis in deep-sea shrimps, finding convergent origins and a gradient of bacterial colonization across species.

This study uses ddRAD sequencing to analyze genetic differentiation in Atlantic Rimicaris shrimp species, revealing recent population separation and secondary contacts, and synonymizing two species as one due to morphological plasticity.

This study investigates the speciation and demography of two sympatric Rimicaris shrimp species at hydrothermal vents, finding they are genetically distinct despite co-occurring and showing regional genetic structure and population dynamics influenced by geological and oceanic factors.

The paper shows that juvenile vent shrimps develop into two distinct forms based on symbiosis establishment during subadult transition, influenced by dietary availability.