An Integrated Transcriptome-Wide Analysis of Cave and Surface Dwelling Astyanax mexicanus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Gross, Joshua B ^a   Furterer, Allison ^a   Carlson, Brian M ^a   Stahl, Bethany A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; CHARACIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAVES; CHARACIFORMES; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84873539939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055659     Document Type: Article

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