Transcriptomic Diversity in the Livers of South African Sardines Participating in the Annual Sardine Run.

ABSTRACT: During austral winter, the southern and eastern coastlines of South Africa witness one of the largest animal migrations on the planet, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run. Hundreds of millions of temperate sardines, Sardinops sagax, form large shoals that migrate north-east towards the subtropical Indian Ocean. Recent studies have highlighted the role that genetic and environmental factors play in sardine run formation. In the present study, we used massively parallel sequencing to assemble and annotate the first reference transcriptome from the liver cells of South African sardines, and to investigate the functional content and transcriptomic diversity. A total of 1,310,530 transcripts with an N50 of 1578 bp were assembled de novo. Several genes and core biochemical pathways that modulat

SUBMITTER: Emami-Khoyi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8001748 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature