Lophelia pertusa is a cold-water coral that grows in the deep waters throughout the North Atlantic ocean, as well as parts of the Caribbean Sea and Alboran Sea. Although their reefs are home to a diverse community, the species is extremely slow growing and may be harmed by destructive fishing practices, or oil exploration and extraction. They does not contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae which lives inside most tropical reef building corals. Lophelia lives at a temperature range from about 4–12 °C and at depths between 80 metres and over 3,000 metres, but most commonly at depths of 200–1,000 metres, where there is no sunlight.
Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
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Lophelia pertusa | Cnidaria | Desmophyllum pertusum, deep-sea coral | Hydrothermal vent | 50-3,600 | Savannah Banks site, off the southeastern coast of the continental USA, Atlantic Ocean (latitude 31.75420, longitude 79.19442) | 174260 |
Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness | Gene Number |
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Loph_1.0 | 556.9Mb | Scaffold | 2023 | JAPMOT01 | Lehigh University | PRJNA903949 | 88.90% | 37,484 |
Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
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Genome assembly of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa | GigaByte | 36935863 |
Gene ID | Description |
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OS493_004334-T1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE TAO1-LIKE PROTEIN |
OS493_004335-T1 | BIS(5'-ADENOSYL)-TRIPHOSPHATASE |
OS493_004336-T1 | RBR FAMILY RING FINGER AND IBR DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
OS493_004337-T1 | |
OS493_004338-T1 | |
OS493_004339-T1 | MANNOSYL-OLIGOSACCHARIDE GLUCOSIDASE |
OS493_004340-T1 | MANNOSYL-OLIGOSACCHARIDE GLUCOSIDASE |
OS493_004341-T1 | ZYGOTE-SPECIFIC CLASS V COPY B GENE PROTEIN |
OS493_004342-T1 | |
OS493_004343-T1 | ZYGOTE-SPECIFIC CLASS V COPY B GENE PROTEIN |
OS493_004344-T1 | |
OS493_004345-T1 | |
OS493_004346-T1 | |
OS493_004347-T1 | ZYGOTE-SPECIFIC CLASS V COPY B GENE PROTEIN |
OS493_004348-T1 | |
OS493_004349-T1 | ZYGOTE-SPECIFIC CLASS V COPY B GENE PROTEIN |
OS493_004350-T1 | INOSITOL 5-PHOSPHATASE |
OS493_004351-T1 | BETA-GLUCURONIDASE |
OS493_004352-T1 | |
OS493_004353-T1 | G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE/RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASE |
OS493_004356-T1 | HOMEO BOX HB9 LIKE A-RELATED |
OS493_004357-T1 | HOMEO BOX HB9 LIKE A-RELATED |
OS493_004359-T1 | |
OS493_004360-T1 | HERMANSKY-PUDLAK SYNDROME 4 PROTEIN LIGHT-EAR PROTEIN-RELATED |
OS493_004361-T1 | HERMANSKY-PUDLAK SYNDROME 4 PROTEIN LIGHT-EAR PROTEIN-RELATED |
OS493_004362-T1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE |
OS493_004363-T1 | |
OS493_004364-T1 | ATPASE N2B |
OS493_004365-T1 | |
OS493_004366-T1 | P-LOOP CONTAINING NUCLEOTIDE TRIPHOSPHATE HYDROLASE |
OS493_004367-T1 | T-BOX PROTEIN-RELATED |
OS493_004368-T1 | T-BOX PROTEIN-RELATED |
OS493_004369-T1 | |
OS493_004370-T1 | |
OS493_004371-T1 | DNA REPAIR PROTEIN RAD9 |
OS493_004372-T1 | TETRASPANIN |
OS493_004373-T1 | |
OS493_004374-T1 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE |
OS493_004375-T1 | |
OS493_004376-T1 | RING FINGER PROTEIN 25 |
OS493_004377-T1 | POTASSIUM CHANNEL, SUBFAMILY K |
OS493_004378-T1 | PROLINE-RICH TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 4-RELATED |
OS493_004379-T1 | |
OS493_004380-T1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
OS493_004381-T1 | BOULE-RELATED |
OS493_004382-T1 | UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYME E2 |
OS493_004383-T1 | |
OS493_004384-T1 | |
OS493_004385-T1 | MATRIN 3/NUCLEAR PROTEIN 220-RELATED |
OS493_004386-T1 | ECTONUCLEOTIDE PYROPHOSPHATASE/PHOSPHODIESTERASE |