The Embryonic Transcriptome of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta).

ABSTRACT: The bony shell of the turtle is an evolutionary novelty not found in any other group of animals, however, research into its formation has suggested that it has evolved through modification of conserved developmental mechanisms. Although these mechanisms have been extensively characterized in model organisms, the tools for characterizing them in non-model organisms such as turtles have been limited by a lack of genomic resources. We have used a next generation sequencing approach to generate and assemble a transcriptome from stage 14 and 17 Trachemys scripta embryos, stages during which important events in shell development are known to take place. The transcriptome consists of 231,876 sequences with an N50 of 1,166 bp. GO terms and EC codes were assigned to the 61,643 unique predicted prot

SUBMITTER: Kaplinsky NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3686863 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature