Parasites can take many forms. There is a species of worm, for example, which lives in subsea hydrothermal vents and depends on parasitic bacteria to digest its food.
While this benefits both the pogonophoran annelid and the chemoautotrophic endosymbiont, there are also less benign parasitic
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