Transcriptional Identification of Related Proteins in the Immune System of the Crayfish Procambarus clarkii.

ABSTRACT: The freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii is an animal model employed for physiological and immunological studies and is also of great economic importance in aquaculture. Although it is a species of easy husbandry, a high percentage of its production is lost annually as a result of infectious diseases. Currently, genetic information about the immune system of crustaceans is limited. Therefore, we used the abdominal nerve cord from P. clarkii to obtain its transcriptome using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to identify proteins that participate in the immune system. The reads were assembled de novo and consensus sequences with more than 3000 nucleotides were selected for analysis. The transcripts of the sequences of RNA were edited for annotation and sent to the GenBank dat

SUBMITTER: Calderon-Rosete G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6165390 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature