De novo transcriptome analysis of Perna viridis highlights tissue-specific patterns for environmental studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The tropical green-lipped mussel Perna viridis is a common biomonitor throughout the Indo-Pacific region that is used for environmental monitoring and ecotoxicological investigations. However, there is limited molecular data available regarding this species. We sought to establish a global transcriptome database from the tissues of adductor muscle, gills and the hepatopancreas of P. viridis in an effort to advance our understanding of the molecular aspects involved during specific toxicity responses in this sentinel species.

Results

Illumina sequencing results yielded 544,272,542 high-quality filtered reads. After de novo assembly using Trinity, 233,257 contigs were generated with an average length of 1,264 bp and an N50 length of 2,868 bp; 192,879 assembled trans

SUBMITTER: Leung PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4190305 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature