The transcriptome of the NZ endemic sea urchin Kina (Evechinus chloroticus).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sea urchins are studied as model organisms for developmental and systems biology and also produce highly valued food products. Evechinus chloroticus (Kina) is a sea urchin species that is indigenous to New Zealand. It is the type member of the Evechinus genus based on its morphological characteristics. Previous research has focused on identifying physical factors affecting commercial roe quality of E. chloroticus, but there is almost no genetic information available for E. chloroticus. E. chloroticus is the only species in its genus and has yet to be subject to molecular phylogenetic analysis.

Results

In this study we performed a de novo transcriptome assembly of Illumina sequencing data. A total of 123 million 100 base length paired-end reads were generated using

SUBMITTER: Gillard GB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3898728 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature