Establishment of sustainable bioresources of deep-sea creatures; in the course of Census of Marine Life.

利用潜水器，日本海洋地球科学技术机构发现了深海多细胞生物的新物种，它们的频率很高。从这些新发现的生物中分离出的新物质有望在制药、化妆品、食品和工业应用中发挥重要作用。然而，问题是可以用潜水器捕获的深海生物数量非常有限。因此，我们进行了一次新的尝试，将稀有的深海生物转化为“可以放大的生物资源”。我们成功建立了34种深海生物的基因组文库和4种深海生物的细胞文库。

Using submersibles, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Institution has found new species of deep-sea multicellular organisms with a high frequency. The novel substances isolated from such newly discovered organisms are expected to be valuable in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food and industrial applications. However, the problem is that the number of the deep-sea organisms that can be captured using submersibles is very limited. We, therefore, made a new attempt to convert the rare deep-sea organisms into "bioresources that can be amplified." We successfully established the genomic libraries from 34 species of the deep-sea organisms and the cell libraries from four species.