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Today marks day 26 of me trying out the new "Deep Sea July" prompt. Special thanks to AlexisJ153984 for the prompt.

This one is a snailfish, a family of marine ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, which is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes, which includes lionfish, scorpionfish, and sculpins. Species of deep-sea snailfish have been studied and compared to other ray-finned fishes (also known as teleosts) to analyze their adaptions to deep-sea conditions. The genomes of both the Yap hadal snailfish and Mariana hadal snailfish have been found to contain an abundance of the fmo3 gene, which produces the trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) protein stabilizer. Analysis of Yap hadal snailfish reveals a loss of olfactory receptors and gain of taste receptors, possibly due to the fairly restricted availability of food in the deep-sea. Additionally, perhaps due to lack of light in the deep sea, the Yap genome includes fewer copies of crystallin genes, which encode proteins that sense light and assist in focused vision, in comparison to other teleosts.

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Today marks day 26 of me trying out the new "Deep Sea July" prompt. Special thanks to AlexisJ153984 for the prompt.

This one is a snailfish, a family of marine ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, which is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes, which includes lionfish, scorpionfish, and sculpins. Species of deep-sea snailfish have been studied and compared to other ray-finned fishes (also known as teleosts) to analyze their adaptions to deep-sea conditions. The genomes of both the Yap hadal snailfish and Mariana hadal snailfish have been found to contain an abundance of the fmo3 gene, which produces the trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) protein stabilizer. Analysis of Yap hadal snailfish reveals a loss of olfactory receptors and gain of taste receptors, possibly due to the fairly restricted availability of food in the deep-sea. Additionally, perhaps due to lack of light in the deep sea, the Yap genome includes fewer copies of crystallin genes, which encode proteins that sense light and assist in focused vision, in comparison to other teleosts.