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Researchers from the University of Vienna, IFREMER (France), the University of Oldenburg, and AWI (Germany) established cell cultures from the deep‑sea mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus, which lives 1,700 m below the surface. In laboratory conditions the mussel cells exhibit a 24‑hour rhythm, despite the vents’ perpetual darkness. The study, published in EMBO Reports, shows that the mussels’ biological timing relies on the same genes that regulate the 24‑hour clock in land‑dwelling organisms. This finding provides cellular and molecular insight into deep‑sea biological timing mechanisms.

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