Transcriptome characterization of the South African abalone Haliotis midae using sequencing-by-synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Worldwide, the genus Haliotis is represented by 56 extant species and several of these are commercially cultured. Among the six abalone species found in South Africa, Haliotis midae is the only aquacultured species. Despite its economic importance, genomic sequence resources for H. midae, and for abalone in general, are still scarce. Next generation sequencing technologies provide a fast and efficient tool to generate large sequence collections that can be used to characterize the transcriptome and identify expressed genes associated with economically important traits like growth and disease resistance.

Results

More than 25 million short reads generated by the Illumina Genome Analyzer were de novo assembled in 22,761 contigs with an average size of 260 bp. With a

SUBMITTER: Franchini P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3063225 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature