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 |
|---|---|
| gene25745.t2 | DNA POLYMERASE |
| gene25746.t1 | - |
| gene25747.t1 | PROTEIN CBG26694 |
| gene25748.t1 | RETROTRANSPOSON |
| gene25749.t1 | - |
| gene25750.t1 | PROTEIN CBG26694 |
| gene25751.t1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| gene25752.t1 | - |
| gene25753.t1 | - |
| gene25754.t1 | INTEGRASE CORE DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| gene25755.t1 | - |
| gene25756.t1 | RETROVIRAL PROTEASE-RELATED |
| gene25757.t1 | RETROTRANSPOSON |
| gene25757.t2 | RETROTRANSPOSON |
| gene25758.t1 | KERATIN, ULTRA HIGH-SULFUR MATRIX PROTEIN-LIKE |
| gene25759.t1 | - |
| gene25760.t1 | - |
| gene25761.t1 | - |
| gene25762.t1 | - |
| gene25763.t1 | - |
