Figure 1.

Pictures showing the two sampling methods applied in this study

(A) Schematic of the two sampling methods.

(B) An on-site photograph of the tuck net filled with the deep-sea limpet Bathyacmaea lactea attached to the mussel shells (indicated with red arrows). Inset: dorsal view of a B. lactea specimen. Scale bar, 0.5 cm.

(C) An on-site photograph of the in situ fixation. Bathyacmaea lactea attached on mussel shells (indicated with red arrows) were fallen off and in situ fixed in the sampling chamber (indicated with a white dotted box) fully filled with in-house RNA stabilizing solution.