Mercenaria mercenaria (Northern quahog, notata) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Mercenaria mercenaria

The hard clam, also known as the round clam, hard-shell clam, or the quahog, is an edible marine bivalve mollusk that is native to the eastern shores of North America and Central America from Prince Edward Island to the Yucatan Peninsula. It is one of many unrelated edible bivalves that in the United States are frequently referred to simply as clams. Older literature sources may use the systematic name Venus mercenaria; this species is in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.

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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_021730395.1].

The total length of the assembly is 1858199728 bp contained within 4975 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 82914371, the scaffold L50 value is 10. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_021730395.1.

Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release GCF_021730395.1-RS_2023_01. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by metazoa.