Biological rhythms in the deep-sea hydrothermal mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Publication Date
- Jul 10, 2020
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17284-4
- Source
- Springer Nature
- License
- Green
Abstract
Little is known about gene expression of organisms in the deep sea, partially owing to constraints on sampling these organisms in situ. Here the authors circumvent this problem, fixing tissue of a deep-sea mussel at 1,688 m in depth, and later analyzing transcriptomes to reveal gene expression patterns showing tidal oscillations.