Homarus americanus (American lobster, GMGI-L3) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Homarus americanus

The American lobster (Homarus americanus) is a species of lobster found on the Atlantic coast of North America, chiefly from Labrador to New Jersey. It is also known as Atlantic lobster, Canadian lobster, true lobster, northern lobster, Canadian Reds, or Maine lobster. It can reach a body length of 64 cm (25 in), and a mass of over 20 kilograms (44 lb), making it not only the heaviest crustacean in the world, but also the heaviest of all living arthropod species. The closest relative to H. americanus and the only other species within the genus is the European lobster Homarus gammarus. Morphologically H. americanus can be distinguished by its coloration and the lack of spines on the underside of the rostrum. American lobsters are usually bluish green to brown with red spines, but several color variations have been observed.

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Taxonomy ID 6706

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_018991925.1].

The total length of the assembly is 2292076018 bp contained within 47246 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 759644, the scaffold L50 value is 242. Assembly gaps span 833736 bp.

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.