The genome of an apodid holothuroid (Chiridota heheva) provides insights into its adaptation to a deep-sea reducing environment

• Published in: Communications biology Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 224 - 11
• Main Authors: Zhang, Long, He, Jian, Tan, Peipei, Gong, Zhen, Qian, Shiyu, Miao, Yuanyuan, Zhang, Han-Yu, Tu, Guangxian, Chen, Qi, Zhong, Qiqi, Han, Guanzhu, He, Jianguo, Wang, Muhua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 10.03.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 45/23; 45/91; 631/208/212/2304; 631/208/212/748; Acclimatization - genetics; Adaptation, Physiological - genetics; Animals; Biology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Chiridota; Comparative analysis; Deep sea; Detritus; Genome; Genomes; Hydrothermal Vents; Hypoxia; Kinases; Life Sciences; Nucleotide sequence; Phosphohistidine; Photosynthesis; Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease; Polyadenine; Positive selection; Pyruvate kinase; Pyruvic acid; RNA processing; rRNA; Symbiosis
• ISSN: 2399-3642; 2399-3642
• DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03176-4

Cold seeps and hydrothermal vents are deep-sea reducing environments that are characterized by lacking oxygen and photosynthesis-derived nutrients. Most animals acquire nutrition in cold seeps or hydrothermal vents by maintaining epi- or endosymbiotic relationship with chemoautotrophic microorganism...