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Lytechinus variegatus (Green sea urchin, NC3) (Lvar_3.0) ▼

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About Lytechinus variegatus

Lytechinus variegatus, commonly called the green sea urchin (Lytechinus variegatus) or the variegated sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin that can be found in the warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

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Taxonomy ID 7654

(Text from Wikipedia.)

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Taxonomy ID 7654

Data source Duke University

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Genome assembly: Lvar_3.0

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What can I find? Protein-coding and non-coding genes, splice variants, cDNA and protein sequences, non-coding RNAs.

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