Anneissia japonica (Sea lily, Jap-2015-1) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Anneissia japonica

Anneissia japonica, or crinoids belong to thr order Comatulida which are part of the larger more ancient marine Phylum Echinodermata. Members of this order are known as "feather stars" and mostly do not possess a stalk in adulthood. Comatulids live on the seabed and on reefs in tropical and temperate waters. Crinoids are passive suspension feeders, filtering plankton and small particles of detritus from the sea water flowing past them with their feather-like arms. Comatulids consist of 80% calcium carbonate and are unappetising to most predators. A number of species of fish are known to feed on them. Many other invertebrates live as commensals among the rays of crinoids and it may be these succulent morsels that are the principal objective of most predators.

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Taxonomy ID 1529436

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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_011630105.1].

The total length of the assembly is 589628371 bp contained within 118759 contigs. The contig N50 value is 19051, the contig L50 value is 7609. Assembly gaps span 23852162 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.