1. Comparative analysis of gill transcriptomes of two freshwater crayfish, Cherax cainii and C. destructor.
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Ali MY, Pavasovic A, Amin S, Mather PB, and Prentis PJ
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- Animals, Base Sequence, Computational Biology, Gene Expression Profiling, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Molecular Sequence Data, Species Specificity, Astacoidea genetics, Gills metabolism, Transcriptome genetics
- Abstract
We undertook deep sequencing of gill transcriptomes from two freshwater crayfish, Cherax cainii and Cherax destructor, in order to generate genomic resources for future genomics research. Over 83 and 100 million high quality (quality score (Q)≥30) paired-end Illumina reads (150 bp) were assembled into 147,101 and 136,622 contigs in C. cainii and C. destructor, respectively. A total of 24,630 and 23,623 contigs received significant BLASTx hits and allowed the identification of multiple gill expressed candidate genes associated with pH and salinity balance. These functionally annotated transcripts will provide a resource to facilitate comparative genomic research in the genus Cherax, and in particular allow insights into respiratory and osmoregulatory physiology of this group of animals., (Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2015
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