“…Notably, we identified the HSPa17 gene in the M. mercenaria and C. sinensis genomes, which was not reported in the oyster (Zhang et al, 2012) and scallop genomes (Cheng et al, 2016;Hu et al, 2019). The HSPa17 gene was also identified in the human (Brocchieri et al, 2008), bovine (Tripathy et al, 2021), channel catfish (Song et al, 2016), large yellow croaker (Xu et al, 2018), rainbow trout (Ma and Luo, 2020), and ascidian (Fujikawa et al, 2010) genomes. However, we did not identify HSPa13 in the M. mercenaria genome.…”