Catalogue of epidermal genes: genes expressed in the epidermis during larval molt of the silkworm Bombyx mori.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The insect cuticle is composed of various proteins and formed during the molt under hormonal regulation, although its precise composition and formation mechanism are largely unknown. The exhaustive catalogue of genes expressed in epidermis at the molt constitutes a massive amount of information from which to draw a complete picture of the molt and cuticle formation in insects. Therefore, we have catalogued a library of full-length cDNAs (designated epM) from epidermal cells during the last larval molt of Bombyx mori.

Results

Of the 10,368 sequences in the library, we isolated 6,653 usable expressed sequence tags (ESTs), which were categorized into 1,451 nonredundant gene clusters. Seventy-one clusters were considered to be isoforms or premature forms of other clus

SUBMITTER: Okamoto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2542385 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature