Surviving under pressure

Elife. 2023 Jul 12:12:e90216. doi: 10.7554/eLife.90216.

Authors

Ying Wang¹, Liandong Yang²

Affiliations

¹ Hubei Engineering Research Center for Protection and Utilization of Special Biological Resources in the Hanjiang River Basin, College of Life Sciences, Jianghan University, Wuhan, China.
² Liandong Yang is at the State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Genomic analysis has shed light on how hadal snailfish have adapted to living at depths of several thousand metres.

Keywords: Tanaka's snailfish; adaptation; evolutionary biology; extreme environments; genetics; genomics; hadal snailfish; hadal zone.

© 2023, Wang and Yang.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Adaptation, Physiological*
Animals
Perciformes* / physiology

Supplementary concepts

Pseudoliparis swirei