Transcriptome sequencing of the blind subterranean mole rat, Spalax galili: Utility and potential for the discovery of novel evolutionary patterns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Malik, Assaf ^a   Korol, Abraham ^a   Hübner, Sariel ^a   Hernandez, Alvaro G ^b   Thimmapuram, Jyothi ^b   Ali, Shahjahan ^b,e   Glaser, Fabian ^c   Paz, Arnon ^d   Avivi, Aaron ^a   Band, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOXIA; MOLE RAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPALAX GALILI; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE; OPEN READING FRAME;

ANIMALIA; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; RATTUS; SPALACINAE; SPALAX GALILI;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPALAX; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 80051658720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021227     Document Type: Article

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