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_004910-T1 | |
OS493_004911-T1 | CHYMOTRYPSIN-LIKE ELASTASE FAMILY MEMBER |
OS493_004912-T1 | DISCOIDIN, CUB, EGF, LAMININ , AND ZINC METALLOPROTEASE DOMAIN CONTAINING |
OS493_004913-T1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
OS493_004914-T1 | |
OS493_004915-T1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
OS493_004916-T1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
OS493_004917-T1 | - |
OS493_004918-T1 | |
OS493_004919-T1 | TRANSLIN-ASSOCIATED FACTOR X-INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 |
OS493_004920-T1 | UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME 7 INTERACTING PROTEIN-RELATED |
OS493_004921-T1 | |
OS493_004922-T1 | |
OS493_004923-T1 | POLYAMINE-MODULATED FACTOR 1-BINDING PROTEIN 1-RELATED |
OS493_004924-T1 | |
OS493_004925-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004926-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004927-T1 | - |
OS493_004928-T1 | MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN |
OS493_004929-T1 | |
OS493_004930-T1 | |
OS493_004931-T1 | |
OS493_004932-T1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 12 |
OS493_004933-T1 | LIG_CHAN-GLU_BD DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
OS493_004934-T1 | PREFOLDIN SUBUNIT 4 |
OS493_004935-T1 | 37S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S22 |
OS493_004936-T1 | CARBOHYDRATE SULFOTRANSFERASE |
OS493_004937-T1 | CARBOHYDRATE SULFOTRANSFERASE |
OS493_004938-T1 | |
OS493_004939-T1 | TARGETING PROTEIN FOR XKLP2 |
OS493_004940-T1 | FG-GAP REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
OS493_004941-T1 | PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 REGULATORY SUBUNIT 12 |
OS493_004942-T1 | PROLYL 4-HYDROXYLASE ALPHA SUBUNIT |
OS493_004943-T1 | |
OS493_004944-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004945-T1 | |
OS493_004946-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004947-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004948-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004949-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004950-T1 | PROLYL 4-HYDROXYLASE ALPHA SUBUNIT |
OS493_004951-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004952-T1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
OS493_004953-T1 | INTELECTIN |
OS493_004954-T1 | |
OS493_004955-T1 | UBIQUINONE BIOSYNTHESIS PROTEIN COQ9, MITOCHONDRIAL |
OS493_004956-T1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
OS493_004957-T1 | T-CELL IMMUNOMODULATORY PROTEIN HOMOLOG |
OS493_004959-T1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
OS493_004960-T1 | ADHESION G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |