Crassostrea virginica (Eastern oyster, RU13XGHG1-28) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Crassostrea virginica

The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) —also called the Atlantic oyster, American oyster, or East Coast oyster—is a species of true oyster native to eastern North and South America. Other names in local or culinary use include the Wellfleet oyster, Virginia oyster, Malpeque oyster, Blue Point oyster, Chesapeake Bay oyster, and Apalachicola oyster. C. virginica ranges from northern New Brunswick through parts of the West Indies and south to Brazil. It is farmed in all of the Maritime provinces of Canada and all Eastern Seaboard and Gulf states of the United States, as well as Puget Sound, Washington, where it is known as the Totten Inlet Virginica. It was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands in the nineteenth century and is common in Pearl Harbor.

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Taxonomy ID 6565

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_002022765.2].

The total length of the assembly is 684741128 bp contained within 11 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 75944018, the scaffold L50 value is 4. Assembly gaps span 65800 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.0%.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v100. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.