Alvinella pompejana

Overview
Full NameAlvinella pompejana
GenusAlvinella
Speciespompejana
Common NamePompeii worm
AbbreviationA. pompejana
Interest

Alvinella pompejana is a polychaetous annelid that inhabits active deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites along the East Pacific Rise, where it colonizes the walls of actively venting high-temperature chimneys. An abundant, morphologically diverse epibiotic microflora is associated with the worm’s dorsal integument, with a highly integrated filamentous morphotype clearly dominating the microbial biomass. It has been suggested that this bacterial population participates in either the nutrition of the worm or in detoxification of the worm’s immediate environment

 

One of the more remarkable members of deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities is the colonial, tube-dwelling, polychaetous annelid Alvinella pompejana found inhabiting the walls of actively venting chimneys. Now thought to be one of the most thermotolerant metazoans known, A. pompejana appears restricted to the high-temperature vent sites from 178S to 218N on the East Pacific Rise. The harsh chimney environment is characterized by extreme temperature gradients (2 to 3508C) and high concentrations of sulfide and heavy metals in the vicinity of the worm colonies.

Station Biologique, Roscoff, France

Count Summary
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Feature TypeCount
Scaffolds45,450
Genes112,569
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ctg1000_pilon.g25.t1ctg1000_pilon.g25.t1mRNA
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ctg1001_pilon.g114.t1ctg1001_pilon.g114.t1mRNA
ctg1001_pilon.g115.t1ctg1001_pilon.g115.t1mRNA
ctg1002_pilon.g94.t1ctg1002_pilon.g94.t1mRNA
ctg1002_pilon.g95.t1ctg1002_pilon.g95.t1mRNA
ctg1002_pilon.g96.t1ctg1002_pilon.g96.t1mRNA
ctg1002_pilon.g97.t1ctg1002_pilon.g97.t1mRNA
ctg1003_pilon.g100.t1ctg1003_pilon.g100.t1mRNA
ctg1003_pilon.g101.t1ctg1003_pilon.g101.t1mRNA
ctg1003_pilon.g102.t1ctg1003_pilon.g102.t1mRNA
ctg1003_pilon.g103.t1ctg1003_pilon.g103.t1mRNA
ctg1003_pilon.g104.t1ctg1003_pilon.g104.t1mRNA
ctg1004_pilon.g105.t1ctg1004_pilon.g105.t1mRNA
ctg1004_pilon.g106.t1ctg1004_pilon.g106.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g164.t1ctg1005_pilon.g164.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g165.t1ctg1005_pilon.g165.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g166.t1ctg1005_pilon.g166.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g167.t1ctg1005_pilon.g167.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g168.t1ctg1005_pilon.g168.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g169.t1ctg1005_pilon.g169.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g170.t1ctg1005_pilon.g170.t1mRNA
ctg1005_pilon.g171.t1ctg1005_pilon.g171.t1mRNA

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