Pollicipes pollicipes (Goose neck barnacle, AB1234) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Pollicipes pollicipes

Pollicipes pollicipes, known as the goose neck barnacle, goose barnacle or leaf barnacle is a species of goose barnacle, also well known under the taxonomic synonym Pollicipes cornucopia. It is closely related to Pollicipes polymerus, a species with the same common names, but found on the Pacific coast of North America, and to Pollicipes elegans a species from the coast of Chile. It is found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean and is prized as a delicacy, especially in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Taxonomy ID 41117

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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_011947565.2].

The total length of the assembly is 770089732 bp contained within 1254 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 47009503, the scaffold L50 value is 8. Assembly gaps span 8309452 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 52.5%.

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.