Four High Quality Mollusk Genomes published in the Aquatic Symbiosis Genome Project

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The whole genomes of mollusk species Tridacna crocea (giant clam), Fragum fragum and F. whitley (heart cockles), and Hippopus hippopus (strawberry clam) have now been fully sequenced through the Aquatic Symbiosis Genome (ASG) project. First authors Ruiqi Li and Jingchun Li from the University of Colorado, Boulder have collaborated with ASG photosymbiosis hub leader, Joe Lopez, multiple scientists and the Wellcome Sanger Institute/Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to produce the high quality, chromosome level genomes which are being published as Wellcome Genome Notes prior to full peer-review. The sizes of the four genomes appear similar around 1 giga basepairs. Pre-prints can be downloaded here –

https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20580.1;

https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21134.1

https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21135.1;

and

https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21137.1