Mercenaria mercenaria (Hard clam (quahog), YKG-2019) 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 Yucatán Peninsula. It is one of many unrelated edible bivalves that in the United States are frequently referred to simply as clams, as in the expression "clam digging". Older literature sources may use the systematic name Venus mercenaria; this species is in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.

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Taxonomy ID 6596

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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_014805675.2].

The total length of the assembly is 1777634794 bp contained within 1432 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 91379220, the scaffold L50 value is 9. Assembly gaps span 9580415 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.0%.

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.