Toward an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of barnacle larval settlement: a comparative transcriptomic approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The barnacle Balanus amphitrite is a globally distributed biofouler and a model species in intertidal ecology and larval settlement studies. However, a lack of genomic information has hindered the comprehensive elucidation of the molecular mechanisms coordinating its larval settlement. The pyrosequencing-based transcriptomic approach is thought to be useful to identify key molecular changes during larval settlement.

Methodology and principal findings

Using 454 pyrosequencing, we collected totally 630,845 reads including 215,308 from the larval stages and 415,537 from the adults; 23,451 contigs were generated while 77,785 remained as singletons. We annotated 31,720 of the 92,322 predicted open reading frames, which matched hits in the NCBI NR database, and identifi

SUBMITTER: Chen ZF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3146488 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature