| aa | amino acid(s) |
| BLASTn | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool for nucleotide sequences |
| bp | base pair(s) |
| BUSCO | Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs |
| CCS | circular consensus sequence(s) |
| CDS | coding sequence |
| COG | Clusters of Orthologous Groups |
| cox1 | cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 |
| DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| GC | guanine–cytosine |
| GFF3 | General Feature Format version 3 |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| Hi-C | high-throughput chromosome conformation capture |
| HiFi | high-fidelity |
| IQR | interquartile range |
| Iso-Seq | isoform sequencing |
| kb | kilobase(s) |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| Mb | megabase(s) |
| N50 | sequence length at which 50% of the total assembly length is contained in sequences of that length or longer |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| PCR | polymerase chain reaction |
| Pfam | Protein families database |
| RNA-seq | RNA sequencing |
| SMRT | single-molecule real-time |