Transcriptome analysis of Dastarcus helophoroides (Coleoptera: Bothrideridae) using Illumina HiSeq sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dastarcus helophoroides is known as the most valuable natural enemy insect against many large-body longhorned beetles. The molecular mechanism of its long lifespan and reproduction makes it a unique resource for genomic research. However, molecular biological studies on this parasitic beetle are scarce, and genomic information for D. helophoroides is not currently available. Thus, transcriptome information for this species is an important resource that is required for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of D. helophoroides. In this study, we obtained transcriptome information of D. helophoroides using high-throughput RNA sequencing.

Results

Using Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing, 27,543,746 clean reads corresponding to a total of 2.48 Gb nucleotides w

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4076278 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature