Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Salmon louse) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Lepeophtheirus salmonis

The salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) is a species of copepod in the genus Lepeophtheirus. It is a sea louse, a parasite living mostly on salmon, particularly on Pacific and Atlantic salmon and sea trout, but is also sometimes found on the three-spined stickleback. It feeds on the mucus, skin and blood of the fish. Once detached, they can be blown by wind across the surface of the sea, like plankton. When they encounter a suitable marine fish host, they adhere themselves to the skin, fins, or gills of the fish, and feed on the mucus or skin. Sea lice only affect fish and are not harmful to humans.

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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_016086655.5].

The total length of the assembly is 647090668 bp contained within 8258 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 47531287, the scaffold L50 value is 6. The GC% content of the assembly is 31.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_016086655.5.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release GCF_016086655.4-RS_2025_03. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.