Gene expression profiling of two related soft corals, Sinularia polydactyla and S. maxima, and their putative hybrid at different life-history stages

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-143

  Hoover, Cindi A ^a   Slattery, Marc ^b   Marsh, Adam G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Morphology; Reproduction; Sinularia; Soft coral; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUAM; HABITAT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HYBRID; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MARINE SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; SINULARIA; SINULARIA MAXIMA; SINULARIA POLYDACTYLA;

EID: 34247476309     PISSN: 1744117X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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