De novo Assembly and Analysis of Tissue-Specific Transcriptomes of the Edible Red Sea Urchin Loxechinus albus Using RNA-Seq.

ABSTRACT: Edible red sea urchin (Loxechinus albus) is an endemic echinoderm species of the Chilean coasts. The worldwide demand for high-quality gonads of this species has addressed the depletion of its natural populations. Studies on this sea urchin are limited, and genomic information is almost nonexistent. Hence, generate a transcriptome is crucial information that will considerably enrich molecular data and promote future findings for the L. albus aquaculture. Here, we obtained transcriptomic data of the edible red sea urchin by Illumina platform. Total RNA was extracted from gonads, intestines, and coelomocytes of juvenile urchins, and samples were sequenced using MiSeq Illumina technology. A total of 91,119,300 paired-end reads were de novo assembled, 185,239 transcripts p

SUBMITTER: Antiqueo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8533317 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature