A garter snake transcriptome: Pyrosequencing, de novo assembly, and sex-specific differences

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schwartz, Tonia S ^a   Tae, Hongseok ^b   Yang, Youngik ^c   Mockaitis, Keithanne ^b   Van Hemert, John L ^a   Proulx, Stephen R ^a,d   Choi, Jeong Hyeon ^b   Bronikowski, Anne M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; MESSENGER RNA; TITANIUM;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PYROSEQUENCING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SNAKE; THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LIZARD; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

REPTILIA; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLUBRIDAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LIZARDS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TITANIUM;

EID: 78649734757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-694     Document Type: Article

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