The Venus flytrap sea anemone Actinoscyphia liui is a species in the genus Actinoscyphia, showing specialization resembling the Venus flytrap plant, with two comparable lobes exhibiting a body shape with bilateral symmetry. They can actively orient their oral discs to the current for foraging, exhibiting feeding behaviour similar to that of flytrap plants. In addition, they can inhabit the nutrient-limited deep ocean in the tropical western Pacific.
Animalia Kingdom; Cnidaria (Phylum); Anthozoa (Class); Actiniaria (Order); Actinoscyphiidae (Family); Actinoscyphia (Genus); Actinoscyphia liui (Species)
Actinoscyphia sp. M1220
Pacific Ocean: Kocebu Guyot, deep-sea mount, 1402.9 m
Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
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Actinoscyphia liui | Cnidaria | deep-sea Venus flytrap sea anemone, Actinoscyphia sp. M1220 | Seamount | 1,403 | Kocebu Guyot in the Magellan Seamount Chain (153°8.20052′ E; 17°20.64047′ N) | 2928332 |
Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness (%) | Scaffold/Contig N50 (kb) | GC content (%) | Repeat Rate (%) | Gene Number |
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ASM4129641v1 | 522Mb | Chromosome | 2024 | JALNPV01 | Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | PRJNA817838 | 94.70 | 58,422/3,400 | 38 | 44.06 | 33,126 |
Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of a deep-sea Venus flytrap sea anemone sheds light upon adaptations to an extremely oligotrophic environment | Molecular Ecology | 39166453 |
Gene ID | Description |
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gene19400.t1 | AN1-TYPE ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
gene19401.t1 | PRE-MRNA SPLICING FACTOR PRP31 |
gene19402.t1 | SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN SM D2 |
gene19403.t1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 198 FAMILY MEMBER |
gene19404.t1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 198 FAMILY MEMBER |
gene19405.t1 | PROTEIN CHURCHILL |
gene19406.t1 | UDP/ADP-SUGAR PYROPHOSPHATASE |
gene19407.t1 | UDP/ADP-SUGAR PYROPHOSPHATASE |
gene19408.t1 | GAMMA-BUTYROBETAINE HYDROXYLASE-RELATED |
gene19409.t1 | PROLINE-RICH TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 4-RELATED |
gene19409.t2 | PROLINE-RICH TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 4-RELATED |
gene19410.t1 | GAMMA-BUTYROBETAINE HYDROXYLASE-RELATED |
gene19411.t1 | REST COREPRESSOR COREST PROTEIN-RELATED |
gene19412.t1 | - |
gene19413.t1 | PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM TRANSPORT PROTEIN |
gene19414.t1 | SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A PP2A REGULATORY SUBUNIT B |
gene19415.t1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT PROTEIN |
gene19416.t1 | MITOCHONDRIAL IMPORT RECEPTOR SUBUNIT TOM20 |
gene19417.t1 | HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1 ALPHA INHIBITOR-RELATED |
gene19418.t1 | REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |