A nonlethal sampling method to obtain, generate and assemble whole blood transcriptomes from small, wild mammals

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 150-162

  Huang, Zixia ^a   Gallot, Aurore ^a,b   Lao, Nga T ^a,c   Puechmaille, Sébastien J ^a,d   Foley, Nicole M ^a   Jebb, David ^a   Bekaert, Michaël ^e   Teeling, Emma C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^e NSilico Lifescience Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Myotis myotis; Bats; Conservation genomics; De novo assembly; Illumina RNA Seq

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; BAT; BIOLOGY; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BLOOD; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84955216871     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12447     Document Type: Article

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