Penaeus japonicus (Kuruma shrimp, Ginoza2017) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Penaeus japonicus

Marsupenaeus is a monotypic genus of prawn. It contains a single species, Marsupenaeus japonicus, known as the kuruma shrimp, kuruma prawn, or Japanese tiger prawn. It occurs naturally in bays and seas of the Indo-West Pacific, but has also reached the Mediterranean Sea as a Lessepsian migrant. It is one of the largest species of prawns, and is accordingly one of the most economically important species in the family.

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Taxonomy ID 27405

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_017312705.1].

The total length of the assembly is 1705010925 bp contained within 18211 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 234949, the scaffold L50 value is 2083. Assembly gaps span 35891331 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.