Mytilus californianus Genomic Resources. Mytilus californianus

The California mussel (Mytilus californianus) is a habitat engineer and important prey species for keystone species. A preferred food source for the sea star Pisaster ochraceus, the California mussel has also been a source of food for people along the California coast for over 10,000 years. They are found from Baja California to Alaska in the rocky intertidal. Their large beds provide protection to other organisms from abiotic stress and predation. A single mussel bed can sustain diverse communities with representatives from over 10 marine invertebrate phyla.. These data have been produced as part of the CCGP. Sequencing was conducted with HiFi Pacific Biosciences long reads at UCDavis Genome Core, Dovetail's OmniC libraries, and Illumina sequencing at UCBerkeley QB3 Genomics Core. For more information, go to: ccgproject.org