Transcriptome analysis of the sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) with variation in individual growth.

ABSTRACT: The sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) is an economically important aquaculture species in China. However, the serious individual growth variation often caused financial losses to farmers and the genetic mechanisms are poorly understood. In the present study, the extensively analysis at the transcriptome level for individual growth variation in sea cucumber was carried out. A total of 118946 unigenes were assembled from 255861 transcripts, with N50 of 1700. Of all unigenes, about 23% were identified with at least one significant match to known databases. In all four pair of comparison, 1840 genes were found to be expressed differently. Global hypometabolism was found to be occurred in the slow growing population, based on which the hypothesis was raised that growth retardation in indivi

SUBMITTER: Gao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5513535 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature