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What is a trophosome?

What is a trophosome? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan.
  2. (biology) The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide.
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The trophosome consists of a mass of coenosarcal tubes anastomosing in all planes.
The polyp-individuals form the nutritive siphosome or trophosome.
The bacteria probably migrate through the outer parts of the body to reach a layer that transforms into their new home, an organ called a trophosome.

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