De novo gill transcriptome assembly of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus
Illumina NovaSeq (150 bp paired-end) transcriptome sequencing of gill tissue from the deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus, collected during the Biobaz campaign (RV Pourquoi Pas?, French-led mission) at the Menez Gwen hydrothermal vent field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in August 2013. RNA was extracted from a pooled sample (three individuals) and used to generate a de novo transcriptome assembly (Trinity) with functional annotation (TransDecoder, Trinotate v4) for identification of biomedically relevant protein families, including integrins, matrix metalloproteinases, growth factors, and coagulation- and immune-related proteins, as part of a broader review of B. azoricus biomedical applications.