Limulus polyphemus (Atlantic horseshoe crab) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Limulus polyphemus

The Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a species of marine and brackish chelicerate arthropod. Despite their name, horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders, ticks, and scorpions than to crabs. It is found in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast of North America. The main area of annual migration is Delaware Bay along the South Jersey Delaware Bayshore.

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Taxonomy ID 6850

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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_000517525.1].

The total length of the assembly is 1828271751 bp contained within 286793 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 254089, the scaffold L50 value is 1712. Assembly gaps span 122485139 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 33.5%.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v101. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.