Lineus longissimus (Bootlace worm, reference) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About *Lineus longissimus *

The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) is a species of ribbon worm. The bootlace worm is in the phylum Nemertea, also called proboscis worms. Lineus longissimus is the most common nemertean found along the coasts of Britain. Bootlace worms may grow very long but are usually only 5 to 10 millimetres (0.20 to 0.39 in) in width. Its mucus is highly toxic.

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Taxonomy ID 88925

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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_910592395.2].

The total length of the assembly is 391,180,816 bp contained within 31 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 20961375, the scaffold L50 value is 8. Assembly gaps span 14500 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 41.5%.

Annotation

Protein-coding genes are automatically annotated using Ensembl's genebuild pipeline.

All transcripts are based on mRNA and proteins in public scientific databases. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.