Species and population specific gene expression in blood transcriptomes of marine turtles.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transcriptomic data has demonstrated utility to advance the study of physiological diversity and organisms' responses to environmental stressors. However, a lack of genomic resources and challenges associated with collecting high-quality RNA can limit its application for many wild populations. Minimally invasive blood sampling combined with de novo transcriptomic approaches has great potential to alleviate these barriers. Here, we advance these goals for marine turtles by generating high quality de novo blood transcriptome assemblies to characterize functional diversity and compare global transcriptional profiles between tissues, species, and foraging aggregations.

Results

We generated high quality blood transcriptome assemblies for hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbrica

SUBMITTER: Banerjee SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8117300 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature