Why so many unknown genes? Partitioning orphans from a representative transcriptome of the lone star tick Amblyomma americanum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gibson, Amanda K ^a   Smith, Zach ^a   Fuqua, Clay ^a   Clay, Keith ^a   Colbourne, John K ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amblyomma americanum; Chelicerata; EST (Expressed Sequence Tags); Microarray; Orphan genes; Taxonomic isolation; Tick; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INSECT GENOME; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORPHAN GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; START CODON; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; CRUSTACEA; INSECTA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 84874262560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-135     Document Type: Article

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