The transcriptome of the early life history stages of the California Sea Hare Aplysia californica.

ABSTRACT: Aplysia californica is a marine opisthobranch mollusc used as a model organism in neurobiology for cellular analyses of learning and behavior because it possesses a comparatively small number of neurons of large size. The mollusca comprise the second largest animal phylum, yet detailed genetic and genomic information is only recently beginning to accrue. Thus developmental and comparative evolutionary biology as well as biomedical research would benefit from additional information on DNA sequences of Aplysia. Therefore, we have constructed a series of unidirectional cDNA libraries from different life stages of Aplysia. These include whole organisms from the egg, veliger, metamorphic, and juvenile stages as well as adult neural tissue for reference. Individual clones were randomly picked, a

SUBMITTER: Fiedler TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2875295 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature