Characterisation of the transcriptome of a wild great tit Parus major population by next generation sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The recent development of next generation sequencing technologies has made it possible to generate very large amounts of sequence data in species with little or no genome information. Combined with the large phenotypic databases available for wild and non-model species, these data will provide an unprecedented opportunity to "genomicise" ecological model organisms and establish the genetic basis of quantitative traits in natural populations.

Results

This paper describes the sequencing, de novo assembly and analysis from the transcriptome of eight tissues of ten wild great tits. Approximately 4.6 million sequences and 1.4 billion bases of DNA were generated and assembled into 95,979 contigs, one third of which aligned with known Taeniopygia guttata (zebra finch) an

SUBMITTER: Santure AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3125266 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature