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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HS19801 | RAD52 MOTIF-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
HS19802 | TYPE I INTERFERON |
HS19803 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
HS19804 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 103 |
HS19805 | MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY S/T KINASE-RELATED |
HS19806 | RHO/RAC/CDC GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN |
HS19807 | RHO/RAC/CDC GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN |
HS19808 | NEURABIN |
HS19809 | GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR |
HS19810 | IMPORTIN BETA |
HS19811 | PHD/F-BOX CONTAINING PROTEIN |
HS19812 | B-BOX DOMAIN CONTAINING |
HS19813 | HISTONE H2A |
HS19814 | WD-REPEAT PROTEIN-RELATED |
HS19815 | |
HS19816 | MEDIATOR OF RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SUBUNIT 15 |
HS19817 | REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
HS19818 | THO COMPLEX SUBUNIT 6 HOMOLOG |
HS19819 | IP01015P-RELATED |
HS19820 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS19821 | |
HS19822 | SYNTAXIN |
HS19823 | KRUEPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
HS19824 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS19825 | |
HS19826 | INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT |
HS19827 | NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE |
HS19828 | GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR |
HS19829 | |
HS19830 | PROTEIN CASC3 |
HS19831 | MAJOR VAULT PROTEIN |
HS19832 | ANKYRIN REPEAT AND STERILE ALPHA MOTIF DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
HS19833 | |
HS19834 | ARGININE DEMETHYLASE AND LYSYL-HYDROXYLASE JMJD |
HS19835 | HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN |
HS19836 | NG5 |
HS19837 | |
HS19838 | NUCLEAR PROTEIN 1 AND 2 |
HS19839 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
HS19840 | |
HS19841 | NFATC2-INTERACTING PROTEIN |
HS19842 | SPINSTER |
HS19843 | HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN |
HS19844 | ATAXIN 2-RELATED |
HS19845 | |
HS19846 | CT120 PROTEIN |
HS19847 | MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE |
HS19848 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
HS19849 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL SYNTHASE |
HS19850 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE TAO1-LIKE PROTEIN |