Transcriptome analysis of a North American songbird, melospiza melodia

DNA Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 325-333

  Srivastava, Anuj ^a   Winker, Kevin ^b   Shaw, Timothy I ^a   Jones, Kenneth L ^a,c   Glenn, Travis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

EST; genetic markers; next generation sequencing; SNP characterization; songbird speciation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FINCH; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; NONHUMAN; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MARKERS; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPARROWS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84864954193     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dss015     Document Type: Article

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