Comparative high-throughput transcriptome sequencing and development of SiESTa, the Silene EST annotation database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The genus Silene is widely used as a model system for addressing ecological and evolutionary questions in plants, but advances in using the genus as a model system are impeded by the lack of available resources for studying its genome. Massively parallel sequencing cDNA has recently developed into an efficient method for characterizing the transcriptomes of non-model organisms, generating massive amounts of data that enable the study of multiple species in a comparative framework. The sequences generated provide an excellent resource for identifying expressed genes, characterizing functional variation and developing molecular markers, thereby laying the foundations for future studies on gene sequence and gene expression divergence. Here, we report the results of a compar

SUBMITTER: Blavet N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3157477 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature