Cold-water corals Trachythela sp. YZ-2020 are important habitats for creatures in the deep-sea environment, but they have been degraded by anthropogenic activity. They live in the cold, dark, and hypoxic deep-sea waters and are widespread around the world. Most of them must attach to hard-bottom substrates to grow, and only a few can live on soft sediments. Due to the lack of symbiotic zooxanthellae, they do not require sunlight as a source of energy, and their major source of nutrients is the microscopic zooplankton that comes from passing currents or descends from the surface of the ocean.
| Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trachythela sp. YZ-2020 | Cnidaria | Trachythela sp., Cold-water corals (CWCs) | Cold seep/Hydrothermal vent | ～1068 | slope of the Xisha Trough (18°53′N, 112°66′E, July 2019) in the South China Sea (SCS) | 2770514 |
| Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness | Gene Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDSSE_Tra_sp_1.0 | 578.2Mb | Contig | 2020 | JADLSH01 | Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences | PRJNA661975 | 90.70% | 35,305 |
| Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
|---|---|---|
| The First Draft Genome of a Cold-Water Coral Trachythela sp. (Alcyonacea: Stolonifera: Clavulariidae) | Genome Biology and Evolution | 33331875 |
