De novo sequencing, assembly and analysis of eight different transcriptomes from the Malayan pangolin

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mohamed Yusoff, Aini ^a   Tan, Tze King ^a   Hari, Ranjeev ^a   Koepfli, Klaus Peter ^b   Wee, Wei Yee ^a   Antunes, Agostinho ^c,d   Sitam, Frankie Thomas ^e   Rovie Ryan, Jeffrine Japning ^e   Karuppannan, Kayal Vizi ^e   Wong, Guat Jah ^a   Lipovich, Leonard ^f   Warren, Wesley C ^g   O'Brien, Stephen J ^h,i   Choo, Siew Woh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e Wayne State University ^*  (Malaysia)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PLACENTAL MAMMAL; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUTHERIA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84987623244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep28199     Document Type: Article

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