The Mariana snailfish or Mariana hadal snailfish Pseudoliparis swirei is a species of snailfish found in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It is known from a depth range of 6,198–8,076 m,which is possibly the record for a fish caught on the seafloor. Various anatomical, physiological, molecular and genetic adaptions help this species survive in such depths. It is abundant in their deep-sea habitat and has several unusual adaptions for its dark and high pressure habitat, including transparent skin that lacks pigment, certain organs and eggs that are enlarged, the muscles are thinner, the ossification of its bones (notably the skull) is incomplete.
Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
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Pseudoliparis swirei | Chordata | hadal snailfish | Deep sea | 7,254 | the Mariana Trench (142°26′E, 11°07′N) | 2059687 |
Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness | Gene Number |
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NWPU_hadal_v1 | 626.4Mb | Chromosome | 2023 | JANBZZ01 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | PRJNA852951 | 96.00% | 21,161 |
Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of hadal snailfish reveals mechanisms of deep-sea adaptation in vertebrates | Elife | 38134226 |
Gene ID | Description |
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HS00801 | ENDONUCLEASE-RELATED |
HS00802 | ODD-SKIPPED - RELATED |
HS00803 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR PROTEIN YY |
HS00804 | ZINC FINGER AND BTB DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
HS00805 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00806 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00807 | MHC CLASS I-RELATED |
HS00808 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00809 | MHC CLASS I-RELATED |
HS00810 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00811 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00812 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00813 | ODD-SKIPPED - RELATED |
HS00814 | ZINC FINGER AND BTB DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
HS00815 | SEMAPHORIN |
HS00816 | PR DOMAIN ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00817 | PR DOMAIN ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00818 | ALPHA-1-ACID GLYCOPROTEIN |
HS00819 | |
HS00820 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00821 | ALPHA-1-ACID GLYCOPROTEIN |
HS00822 | METALLOPROTEASE TLDD |
HS00823 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL KINASE |
HS00824 | |
HS00825 | NF-E2 INDUCIBLE PROTEIN |
HS00826 | BNIP - RELATED |
HS00827 | |
HS00828 | PROTEIN AF1Q |
HS00829 | ANKYRIN REPEAT PROTEIN |
HS00830 | ACIDIC LEUCINE-RICH NUCLEAR PHOSPHOPROTEIN 32 |
HS00831 | PH DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
HS00832 | |
HS00833 | |
HS00834 | |
HS00835 | |
HS00836 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN ZIC AND GLI |
HS00837 | |
HS00838 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00839 | ZINC FINGER AND BTB DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
HS00840 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN ZIC AND GLI |
HS00841 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS00842 | |
HS00843 | |
HS00844 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR CTCFL-RELATED |
HS00845 | ZINC FINGER AND BTB DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
HS00846 | |
HS00847 | GLYCOSYLATED LYSOSOMAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN |
HS00848 | |
HS00849 | CHAPERONIN |
HS00850 | PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE |