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Penaeus vannamei (Pacific white shrimp, JL-2024) (ASM4276789v1)

Penaeus vannamei (Pacific white shrimp, JL-2024) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Penaeus vannamei

Whiteleg shrimp, also known as Pacific white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) or King prawn or White shrimp, is a species of prawn of the eastern Pacific Ocean commonly caught or farmed for food.

Picture credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons (Image source) Taxonomy ID 6689

(Text from Wikipedia.)

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_042767895.1].

The total length of the assembly is 1796874110 bp contained within 5443 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 42332664, the scaffold L50 value is 19. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_042767895.1.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release GCF_042767895.1-RS_2024_11. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

Statistics

Summary

AssemblyASM4276789v1, INSDC Assembly GCA_042767895.1,
Database version116.1
Golden Path Length1,796,890,100
Genebuild byNCBI RefSeq
Genebuild methodImport
Data sourceGuangdong Ocean University

Gene counts

Coding genes24,066
Non coding genes3,531
Small non coding genes2,411
Long non coding genes1,070
Misc non coding genes50
Pseudogenes308
Gene transcripts48,465