Nucella lapillus is an important player in rocky shore food chains and has been a focal organism of ecological and evolutionary studies for decades. Despite poor dispersal, they have a broad geographic range, which makes them an ideal species to examine isolation by distance and selection across environmental gradients. A fully annotated genome of N. lapillus generated with Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) sequencing at ∼37× coverage was described in detail in the following publication:

Ford, M. R., Vollmer, S. V., & Trussell, G. C. (2025). Annotated genome of the Atlantic dog whelk, Nucella lapillus. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 15(10). https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf182

This dataset provides information on the study and includes links to the genetic dataset at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) BioProject PRJNA1238877.

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Results

Dataset: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA1238877/

Northeastern University. Nucella lapillus genome sequencing and assembly. 2025/03. In: BioProject [Internet]. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine (US), National Center for Biotechnology Information; 2011-. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA1238877. NCBI:BioProject: PRJNA1238877.

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Methods, Results

Ford, M. R. (2025). Nucella-lapillus-genome [Software]. GitHub. https://github.com/meghanclownfish/Nucella-lapillus-genome

Results

Ford, M. R., Vollmer, S. V., & Trussell, G. C. (2025). Annotated genome of the Atlantic dog whelk, Nucella lapillus. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 15(10). https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf182

Methods

Marçais, G., & Kingsford, C. (2011). A fast, lock-free approach for efficient parallel counting of occurrences of k-mers. Bioinformatics, 27(6), 764–770. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr011

Methods

Sun, J., Chen, C., Miyamoto, N., Li, R., Sigwart, J. D., Xu, T., Sun, Y., Wong, W. C., Ip, J. C. H., Zhang, W., Lan, Y., Bissessur, D., Watsuji, T., Watanabe, H. K., Takaki, Y., Ikeo, K., Fujii, N., Yoshitake, K., Qiu, J.-W., … Qian, P.-Y. (2020). The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15522-3

Software

Challis, R., Richards, E., Rajan, J., Cochrane, G., & Blaxter, M. (2020). BlobToolKit – Interactive Quality Assessment of Genome Assemblies. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 10(4), 1361–1374. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400908

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991343_v1_nucella_lapillus_annotated_genome.csv (16.18 MB)	Comma Separated Values (.csv)	Annotated genome of Nucella lapillus (NCBI BioProject 1238877); Primary data file for dataset ID 991343, version 1	Add to Cart 991343_v1_nucella_lapillus_annotated_genome.csv View Table

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991343_v1_nucella_lapillus_nucleotides.csv (517.09 KB)	Comma Separated Values (.csv)	Nucleotide accessions for Nucella lapillus (NCBI BioProject PRJNA1238877) Column_name,Description,Units,Term_match,Type BioProject,NCBI BioProject,unitless,BioProject,String Sampling_Date,Date of sampling for whelk specimen,unitless,date,String Latitude,Latitude of sampling,decimal degrees,lat,Float Longitude,Longitude of sampling,decimal degrees,lon,Float Habitat,Site description of specimen loc... Show more	Add to Cart 991343_v1_nucella_lapillus_nucleotides.csv View Table

Dataset: Annotated genome of Nucella lapillus (Atlantic dog whelk) collected from Nahant, MA in May 2024

Principal Investigator: Geoffrey C. Trussell (Northeastern University)

Scientist: Steven V. Vollmer (Northeastern University)

Student: Meghan Ford (Northeastern University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Dana Stuart Gerlach (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Local adaptation and the evolution of plasticity under predator invasion and warming seas: consequences for individuals, populations and communities (evolution of plasticity)

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Dataset: Annotated genome of Nucella lapillus (Atlantic dog whelk) collected from Nahant, MA in May 2024

Principal Investigator: Geoffrey C. Trussell (Northeastern University)

Scientist: Steven V. Vollmer (Northeastern University)

Student: Meghan Ford (Northeastern University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Dana Stuart Gerlach (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Local adaptation and the evolution of plasticity under predator invasion and warming seas: consequences for individuals, populations and communities (evolution of plasticity)

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