While other high-quality genomes of sea cucumbers are available, the work to be presented in GigaScience is the first genome of a sea cucumber specimen collected at a hydrothermal vent.
The inset shows a photo of sampling at a depth of 2,428 m of the sea cucumber Chiridota heheva used for genome sequencing. Pu Y, Zhou Y, Liu J, Zhang H. A high-quality chromosomal genome assembly ...