It has been hypothesized that close relatives of deep sea tube worms that have been studied at cold seep environments, have the ability to obtain sulfur via diffusion from pore water at their bases.
Julian et al., Roots as a site of hydrogen sulfide uptake in the hydrocarbon seep vestimentifferon Lamellibrachia sp, 1999.
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