Species

Crassostrea virginica

[ Opisthokonta | Metazoa | Eumetazoa | . . .
. . . | Ostreoidea | Ostreidae | Crassostrea ]

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Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Opisthokonta | Metazoa | Eumetazoa | Bilateria | Protostomia | Lophotrochozoa | Mollusca | Bivalvia | Pteriomorphia | Ostreoida | Ostreoidea | Ostreidae | Crassostrea Common: eastern oyster (German: Amerikanische Auster) Comment: Oysters (Crassostrea virginica and Crassostrea gigas) and their accompanying reef structure are a vital component of benthic communities in estuarine systems that a) provide physical substrates for colonization and aggregation, and b) filter and process particulates and nutrients, which can impact water quality, productivity and plankton composition. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (6565) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: BaNG Nematode and Neglected Genomics: MolluscDB National Center for Biotechnology Information: NCBI Eukaryotic Genomes Project The Marine Genomics Project: Crassostrea virginica Genome files National Center for Biotechnology Information Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Chromosome v 3.0.0 2017-08-18 87 34.8 684.7 10 - - 75944 - Contigs v 3.0.0 2017-08-18 87 34.8 684.7 10 - - 75944 - Contigs v 2.0.0 2017-05-22 87 35.0 810.4 755 - - 2436 - Contigs v 1.0.0 2017-02-27 87 34.8 684.7 670 - 1971 - Supercontigs v 1.0.0 2017-02-27 87 34.9 445.6 179 - 3420 -