TY - JOUR AU - Cheng, Jiao AU - Hui, Min AU - Sha, Zhongli PY - 2019 DA - 2019/05/18 TI - Transcriptomic analysis reveals insights into deep-sea adaptations of the dominant species, Shinkaia crosnieri (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), inhabiting both hydrothermal vents and cold seeps JO - BMC Genomics SP - 388 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Hydrothermal vents and cold seeps are typical deep-sea chemosynthetically-driven ecosystems that allow high abundance of specialized macro-benthos. To gather knowledge about the genetic basis of adaptation to these extreme environments, species shared between different habitats, especially for the dominant species, are of particular interest. The galatheid squat lobster, Shinkaia crosnieri Baba and Williams, 1998, is one of the few dominant species inhabiting both deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. In this study, we performed transcriptome analyses of S. crosnieri collected from the Iheya North hydrothermal vent (HV) and a cold seep in the South China Sea (CS) to provide insights into how this species has evolved to thrive in different deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5753-7 DO - 10.1186/s12864-019-5753-7 ID - Cheng2019 ER -