Conchocele bisecta is an extremely large thyasirid very widely distributed in the northern Pacific Ocean, ranging from East China Sea to Russia to Oregon, USA. It is a chemosymbiotic bivalve hosting both methane and sulfur oxidising endosymbionts in a much enlarged gill, and relies on these for energy.
Animalia (Kingdom); Mollusca (Phylum); Bivalvia (Class); Autobranchia (Subclass); Heteroconchia (Infraclass); Euheterodonta (Subterclass); Imparidentia (Superorder); Lucinida (Order); Thyasiroidea (Superfamily); Thyasiridae (Family); Conchocele (Genus); Conchocele bisecta (Species)
Venus bisecta Conrad, 1849
1. Dana J D. United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, USN: Geology[M]. C. Sherman, 1849. (Dana et al., 1849)
with "bisecta" likely referring to its distinct posterior ridge or "two-part" appearance. The genus name, Conchocele, is Latin-derived from "concha" (shell) and Greek "keleh," meaning to divide or split, which again alludes to a divided or notched aspect of the shell.
Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico
| Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conchocele bisecta | Mollusca | deep-sea bivalves | Hydrothermal vent | 50-650 | hydrothermal vents field in the East China Sea (27° 47.5′ N, 126° 53.8′ E) | 1803738 |
| Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness (%) | Scaffold/Contig N50 (kb) | GC content (%) | Repeat Rate (%) | Gene Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASM2923769v1 | 1.9Gb | Chromosome | 2023 | JAQRGA01 | Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | PRJNA913320 | 95.40 | 106,900/488.6 | 39.22 | 66.96 | 25,483 |
| Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
|---|---|---|
| Hologenome analysis reveals independent evolution to chemosymbiosis by deep-sea bivalves | BMC Biology | 36882766 |
| Gene ID | Description |
|---|---|
| Conbi00001 | L-ASPARAGINASE |
| Conbi00002 | - |
| Conbi00003 | GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE 1 FEEDBACK REGULATORY PROTEIN |
| Conbi00004 | REGULATOR OF MICROTUBULE DYNAMICS PROTEIN |
| Conbi00005 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| Conbi00006 | - |
| Conbi00007 | MED-6-RELATED |
| Conbi00008 | ATP-DEPENDENT DNA HELICASE |
| Conbi00009 | INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS |
| Conbi00010 | INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS |
| Conbi00011 | ATP-DEPENDENT RNA HELICASE |
| Conbi00012 | MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 1, 3 |
| Conbi00013 | LYSOSOME-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEIN |
| Conbi00014 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| Conbi00015 | - |
| Conbi00016 | UBIQUITIN-ASSOCIATED DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| Conbi00017 | TRNA (GUANINE-9-) METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| Conbi00018 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE MIB2 |
| Conbi00019 | GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE 14 FAMILY MEMBER |
| Conbi00020 | DUF3504 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| Annotation ID | Description | Type | Subtype | GeneRatio | Evolution Type | P-value | Q-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K22564 | COMMD8: COMM domain containing 8 | KEGG | - | 2 | contracted | - | 1.37E-02 |
| K02357 | tsf, TSFM: elongation factor Ts | KEGG | - | 3 | contracted | - | 1.45E-02 |
| K06238 | COL6A: collagen, type VI, alpha | KEGG | - | 46 | contracted | - | 1.78E-02 |
| K05636 | LAMB1: laminin, beta 1 | KEGG | - | 2 | contracted | - | 2.21E-02 |
| K18646 | ANP32A_C_D: acidic leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family member | KEGG | - | 5 | contracted | - | 3.07E-02 |
| K11810 | SLC16A12: MFS transporter, MCP family, solute carrier family 16 (monocarboxylic acid transporters), member 12 | KEGG | - | 23 | contracted | - | 3.31E-02 |
| K06271 | TLN: talin | KEGG | - | 3 | contracted | - | 3.49E-02 |
| K16061 | BIRC7_8: baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 7/8 | KEGG | - | 10 | contracted | - | 3.52E-02 |
| K03654 | recQ: ATP-dependent DNA helicase RecQ | KEGG | - | 17 | contracted | - | 4.34E-02 |
| K10054 | PML, TRIM19: probable transcription factor PML | KEGG | - | 0 | contracted | - | 4.52E-02 |
