Collembase: a repository for springtail genomics and soil quality assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental quality assessment is traditionally based on responses of reproduction and survival of indicator organisms. For soil assessment the springtail Folsomia candida (Collembola) is an accepted standard test organism. We argue that environmental quality assessment using gene expression profiles of indicator organisms exposed to test substrates is more sensitive, more toxicant specific and significantly faster than current risk assessment methods. To apply this species as a genomic model for soil quality testing we conducted an EST sequencing project and developed an online database.

Description

Collembase is a web-accessible database comprising springtail (F. candida) genomic data. Presently, the database contains information on 8686 ESTs that are assemble

SUBMITTER: Timmermans MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2234260 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature