Whole genome sequencing of a snailfish from the Yap Trench (~7,000 m) clarifies the molecular mechanisms underlying adaptation to the deep sea

• Yinnan Mu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yinnan Mu, Chao Bian, Ruoyu Liu

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

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• Chao Bian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yinnan Mu, Chao Bian, Ruoyu Liu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9904-721X

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• Ruoyu Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yinnan Mu, Chao Bian, Ruoyu Liu

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0853-9863

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• Yuguang Wang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, Fujian, China

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• Guangming Shao,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

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• Jia Li,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-869X

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• Ying Qiu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1862-4797

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• Tianliang He,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4437-5309

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• Wanru Li,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

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• Jingqun Ao,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, Fujian, China

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• Qiong Shi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shiqiong@genomics.cn (QS); chenxinhua@tio.org.cn (XC)

  Affiliation Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6358-976X

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• Xinhua Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shiqiong@genomics.cn (QS); chenxinhua@tio.org.cn (XC)

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2379-7596

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