
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 |
|---|---|
| gene01584.t1 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR PROTEIN YY |
| gene01585.t1 | REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| gene01586.t1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| gene01587.t1 | REGULATORY PROTEIN ZESTE |
| gene01588.t1 | PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A |
| gene01589.t1 | PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A |
| gene01590.t1 | REGULATORY PROTEIN ZESTE |
| gene01591.t1 | - |
| gene01591.t2 | - |
| gene01592.t1 | KERATIN, ULTRA HIGH-SULFUR MATRIX PROTEIN-LIKE |
| gene01593.t1 | DNA LIGASE |
| gene01594.t1 | ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| gene01595.t1 | PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE |
| gene01596.t1 | B-CELL LYMPHOMA/LEUKEMIA 11 |
| gene01597.t1 | REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| gene01598.t1 | - |
| gene01599.t1 | PR DOMAIN ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| gene01600.t1 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR PROTEIN YY |
| gene01601.t1 | - |
| gene01602.t1 | DUAL SPECIFICITY PROTEIN KINASE |