
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 |
|---|---|
| gene12338.t1 | BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME 12 PROTEIN |
| gene12339.t1 | ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX SUBUNIT 4 |
| gene12340.t1 | CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN B |
| gene12340.t2 | CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN B |
| gene12341.t1 | CELL DIVISION PROTEIN KINASE |
| gene12342.t1 | TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-BETA RECEPTOR TYPE I AND II |
| gene12343.t1 | SYNAPTOTAGMIN |
| gene12344.t1 | - |
| gene12344.t2 | - |
| gene12345.t1 | CATION EFFLUX PROTEIN/ ZINC TRANSPORTER |
| gene12346.t1 | SYNAPTOTAGMIN |
| gene12347.t1 | SYNAPTOTAGMIN |
| gene12348.t1 | TRANSCRIPTION INTERMEDIARY FACTOR |
| gene12348.t2 | TRANSCRIPTION INTERMEDIARY FACTOR |
| gene12349.t1 | CHONDROITIN SYNTHASE |
| gene12350.t1 | UPF0658 GOLGI APPARATUS MEMBRANE PROTEIN C1952.10C-RELATED |
| gene12351.t1 | G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| gene12352.t1 | AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER |
| gene12353.t1 | CITRATE SYNTHASE |
| gene12354.t1 | EF-HAND AND COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING FAMILY MEMBER |