A comprehensive reference transcriptome resource for the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum.

ABSTRACT: Parasteatoda tepidariorum is an increasingly popular model for the study of spider development and the evolution of development more broadly. However, fully understanding the regulation and evolution of P. tepidariorum development in comparison to other animals requires a genomic perspective. Although research on P. tepidariorum has provided major new insights, gene analysis to date has been limited to candidate gene approaches. Furthermore, the few available EST collections are based on embryonic transcripts, which have not been systematically annotated and are unlikely to contain transcripts specific to post-embryonic stages of development. We therefore generated cDNA from pooled embryos representing all described embryonic stages, as well as post-embryonic stages including nymphs, larva

SUBMITTER: Posnien N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4132015 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature