Unlikely Environment for a Sea Cucumber (IMAGE)

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Unlikely Environment for a Sea Cucumber

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The sampling site for the sea cucumber was at the Kairei vent field at the bottom of Indian Ocean. The inset shows a photo of sampling at a depth of 2,428 m of the sea cucumber Chiridota heheva used for genome sequencing.

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Pu Y, Zhou Y, Liu J, Zhang H. A high-quality chromosomal genome assembly of the sea cucumber Chiridota heheva and its hydrothermal adaptation. Gigascience 2023 giad107 https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad107

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