Transcriptome analysis of the differentially expressed genes in the male and female shrub willows (Salix suchowensis).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The dioecious system is relatively rare in plants. Shrub willow is an annual flowering dioecious woody plant, and possesses many characteristics that lend it as a great model for tracking the missing pieces of sex determination evolution. To gain a global view of the genes differentially expressed in the male and female shrub willows and to develop a database for further studies, we performed a large-scale transcriptome sequencing of flower buds which were separately collected from two types of sexes.

Results

Totally, 1,201,931 high quality reads were obtained, with an average length of 389 bp and a total length of 467.96 Mb. The ESTs were assembled into 29,048 contigs, and 132,709 singletons. These unigenes were further functionally annotated by comparing their s

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3613397 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature