A cricket Gene Index: a genomic resource for studying neurobiology, speciation, and molecular evolution.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the developmental costs of genomic tools decline, genomic approaches to non-model systems are becoming more feasible. Many of these systems may lack advanced genetic tools but are extremely valuable models in other biological fields. Here we report the development of expressed sequence tags (EST's) in an orthopteroid insect, a model for the study of neurobiology, speciation, and evolution.

Results

We report the sequencing of 14,502 EST's from clones derived from a nerve cord cDNA library, and the subsequent construction of a Gene Index from these sequences, from the Hawaiian trigonidiine cricket Laupala kohalensis. The Gene Index contains 8607 unique sequences comprised of 2575 tentative consensus (TC) sequences and 6032 singletons. For each of the unique seque

SUBMITTER: Danley PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1878485 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature