The crown pearl: a draft genome assembly of the European freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Since historical times, the inherent human fascination with pearls turned the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) into a highly valuable cultural and economic resource. Although pearl harvesting in M. margaritifera is nowadays residual, other human threats have aggra...

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Main Author: Gomes-dos-Santos, André (author)
Other Authors: Lopes-Lima, Manuel (author), Machado, André M. (author), Ramos, António Marcos (author), Usié, Ana (author), Bolotov, Ivan N. (author), Vikhrev, Ilya V. (author), Breton, Sophie (author), Castro, L. Filipe C. (author), Fonseca, Rute R. da (author), Geist, Juergen (author), Österling, Martin E. (author), Prié, Vincent (author), Teixeira, Amílcar (author), Gan, Han Ming (author), Simakov, Oleg (author), Froufe, Elsa (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Margaritifera margaritifera
Freshwater mussel
Pearls
Unionida genome
Whole genome
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/24349
Country:Portugal
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