The developmental transcriptome atlas of the spoon worm Urechis unicinctus (Echiurida: Annelida).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Echiurida is one of the most intriguing major subgroups of annelida because, unlike most other annelids, echiurids lack metameric body segmentation as adults. For this reason, transcriptome analyses from various developmental stages of echiurid species can be of substantial value for understanding precise expression levels and the complex regulatory networks during early and larval development.

Results

A total of 914 million raw RNA-Seq reads were produced from 14 developmental stages of Urechis unicinctus and were de novo assembled into contigs spanning 63,928,225 bp with an N50 length of 2700 bp. The resulting comprehensive transcriptome database of the early developmental stages of U. unicinctus consists of 20,305 representative functional protein-coding transc

SUBMITTER: Park C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5863216 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature