De novo transcriptome sequencing in a songbird, the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis): genomic tools for an ecological model system

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Peterson, Mark P ^a   Whittaker, Danielle J ^a,b   Ambreth, Shruthi ^a   Sureshchandra, Suhas ^a   Buechlein, Aaron ^a   Podicheti, Ram ^a   Choi, Jeong Hyeon ^a,c   Lai, Zhao ^a,d   Mockatis, Keithanne ^a   Colbourne, John ^a   Tang, Haixu ^a   Ketterson, Ellen D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

454 titanium cDNA sequencing; Aves; Junco; Microarray; Pyrosequencing; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; JUNCO HYEMALIS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM;

AVES; BILATERIA; JUNCO HYEMALIS; METAZOA; PASSERI;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOMICS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SONGBIRDS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84863510246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-305     Document Type: Article

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