
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| gene02517.t1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 61 |
| gene02518.t1 | FIBRONECTIN TYPE 3 AND ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAINS PROTEIN 1 |
| gene02519.t1 | PROLINE-RICH TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 4-RELATED |
| gene02520.t1 | PEPTIDASE S8 |
| gene02521.t1 | - |
| gene02521.t2 | - |
| gene02522.t1 | PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASE TMX3 |
| gene02522.t2 | PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASE TMX3 |
| gene02523.t1 | - |
| gene02523.t2 | - |
| gene02523.t3 | CARBOHYDRATE SULFOTRANSFERASE |
| gene02524.t1 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE ZNRF1-LIKE PROTEIN |
| gene02525.t1 | TRANSLIN-ASSOCIATED FACTOR X-INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 |
| gene02526.t1 | - |
| gene02527.t1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| gene02528.t1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
| gene02529.t1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
| gene02530.t1 | 4-HYDROXY-4-METHYL-2-OXOGLUTARATE ALDOLASE 3-RELATED |
| gene02531.t1 | LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT, ISOFORM F-RELATED |
| gene02531.t2 | LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT, ISOFORM F-RELATED |