Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tube worm, is a marine invertebrate in the phylum Annelida. It inhabits hydrothermal vent ecosystems on the Pacific Ocean floor, where temperatures range from 2 to 30 °C. This species can tolerate extremely high hydrogen sulfide levels and relies entirely on symbiotic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria housed in its trophosome for nutrition. These worms can grow up to 3 meters in length, with tubular bodies reaching a diameter of 4 cm, making them one of the most iconic organisms in deep-sea vent ecosystems.
Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
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Riftia pachyptila | Annelida | Cold seep, Hydrothermal vent | 2,514 | hydrothermal vent site Tica, East Pacific Rise (Alvin dive 4839, 9°50.398′N, 104°17.506′W) | 6426 |
Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness | Gene Number |
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- | 560.7Mb | Contig | 2022 | - | University of Vienna | PRJNA754493 | 99.37% | 25,984 |
- | 554Mb | Contig | 2023 | - | QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | PRJEB55047 | 95.60% | 37,037 |
Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
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Novel Insights on Obligate Symbiont Lifestyle and Adaptation to Chemosynthetic Environment as Revealed by the Giant Tubeworm Genome | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 34893862 |
Distinct genomic routes underlie transitions to specialised symbiotic lifestyles in deep-sea annelid worms | nature communications | 37198188 |
Gene ID | Description |
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RPACG00660.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE ABC TRANSPORTER-RELATED |
RPACG00661.1 | BROMODOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
RPACG00662.1 | PACHYTENE CHECKPOINT PROTEIN 2 |
RPACG00663.1 | REPRESSOR OF RNA POLYMERASE III TRANSCRIPTION MAF1 |
RPACG00664.1 | |
RPACG00665.1 | SIGMA 1-TYPE OPIOID RECEPTOR-RELATED |
RPACG00666.1 | VEZATIN |
RPACG00667.1 | ARM REPEAT SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN |
RPACG00668.1 | PROTEIN-S ISOPRENYLCYSTEINE O-METHYLTRANSFERASE |
RPACG00669.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 201 |
RPACG00670.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 2 |
RPACG00671.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE EMP24 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
RPACG00672.1 | ADP RIBOSYLATION FACTOR-RELATED |
RPACG00673.1 | TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN SEC62 |
RPACG00674.1 | |
RPACG00675.1 | |
RPACG00676.1 | |
RPACG00677.1 | |
RPACG00678.1 | PROLINE-RICH TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 4-RELATED |
RPACG00679.1 | |
RPACG00680.1 | MYOSUPPRESSIN RECEPTOR 1, ISOFORM B-RELATED |
RPACG00681.1 | |
RPACG00682.1 | |
RPACG00683.1 | |
RPACG00684.1 | |
RPACG00685.1 | |
RPACG00686.1 | |
RPACG00687.1 | |
RPACG00688.1 | |
RPACG00688.2 | |
RPACG00689.1 | |
RPACG00690.1 | |
RPACG00691.1 | |
RPACG00692.1 | |
RPACG00693.1 | |
RPACG00693.2 | |
RPACG00694.1 | DEOXYNUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE TRIPHOSPHOHYDROLASE |
RPACG00694.2 | |
RPACG00695.1 | DEOXYNUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE TRIPHOSPHOHYDROLASE |
RPACG00696.1 | ACETYLTRANSFERASE |
RPACG00697.1 | HEAT SHOCK REGULATED 2 |
RPACG00698.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
RPACG00699.1 | |
RPACG00700.1 | AP COMPLEX SUBUNIT MU |
RPACG00701.1 | 60S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L22 |
RPACG00702.1 | |
RPACG00703.1 | GALACTOSE-3-O-SULFOTRANSFERASE |
RPACG00704.1 | INNEXIN |
RPACG00705.1 | |
RPACG00706.1 |