Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

The Chinese mitten crab genome provides insights into adaptive plasticity and developmental regulation

  • Zhaoxia Cui,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Jianbo Yuan,
  • Xiaojun Zhang,
  • Tomer Ventura,
  • Ka Yan Ma,
  • Shuai Sun,
  • Chengwen Song,
  • Dongliang Zhan,
  • Yanan Yang,
  • Hourong Liu,
  • Guangyi Fan,
  • Qingle Cai,
  • Jing Du,
  • Jing Qin,
  • Chengcheng Shi,
  • Shijie Hao,
  • Quinn P. Fitzgibbon,
  • Gregory G. Smith,
  • Jianhai Xiang,
  • Tin-Yam Chan,
  • Min Hui,
  • Chenchang Bao,
  • Fuhua Li,
  • Ka Hou Chu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22604-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Brachyurans, or crabs, are of commercial and ecological importance, but limited genomic resources exist. Here the authors present a chromosome-level genome and expression data for the Chinese mitten crab, to shed light on the biology of this group.