Transcriptome analysis of deep-sea mussel Bathymodiolus japonicus during mussel rearing

Bathymodiolus mussels are known to rely largely on symbionts for nutrition. When mussels were reared in an aquarium without a symbiont's energy and carbon source, such as methane, they lost the symbionts in their bacteriocytes leading to a decline in their overall health status. Here, we aim at investigating the nutritional relationships between the host mussel and symbiont and performed dual transcriptomes of the mussel reared in an aquarium.