De novo assembly of the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum transcriptome provides new insights into expression bias, mitochondrial doubly uniparental inheritance and sex determination

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 771-786

  Ghiselli, Fabrizio ^a   Milani, Liliana ^a   Chang, Peter L ^b   Hedgecock, Dennis ^b   Davis, Jonathan P ^c   Nuzhdin, Sergey V ^b   Passamonti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Taylor Shellfish Farms   (United States)

Author keywords

de novo; doubly uniparental inheritance; Ruditapes philippinarum; sex bias; sex determination; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CLAM; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILIPPINES; RUDITAPES PHILIPPINARUM; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UBIQUITINATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX FACTORS; SHELLFISH; TRANSCRIPTOME; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MAMMALIA; VENERUPIS (RUDITAPES) PHILIPPINARUM;

EID: 82255185701     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr248     Document Type: Article

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