De novo transcriptome of the Hemimetabolous German cockroach (Blattella germanica).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The German cockroach, Blattella germanica, is an important insect pest that transmits various pathogens mechanically and causes severe allergic diseases. This insect has long served as a model system for studies of insect biology, physiology and ecology. However, the lack of genome or transcriptome information heavily hinder our further understanding about the German cockroach in every aspect at a molecular level and on a genome-wide scale. To explore the transcriptome and identify unique sequences of interest, we subjected the B. germanica transcriptome to massively parallel pyrosequencing and generated the first reference transcriptome for B. germanica.

Methodology/principal findings

A total of 1,365,609 raw reads with an average length of 529 bp were generated

SUBMITTER: Zhou X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4180286 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature