Project description:To determine the developmental and seasonal variation in transcript expression within a terrestial sentinal, the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus.
Project description:Cwmystwyth is an abandoned lead mine site. The soil of this metalliferous mine site is inhabited by lead hyper-resistant Lumbricus rubellus earthworms. The nature of their resistance to heavy metal lead has not been elucidated in fine detail, especially within a tissue-specific context. Moreover, earthworms have yet to be studied using long read transcriptomic technologies. Hence, various tissues of a Cwmystwyth earthworm were dissected and long read RNA sequenced using the PacBio Sequel Ile system.
Project description:The process of producing the GRC zebrafish assembly included the high-quality sequencing and finishing of clones representing alternate haplotypes to corresponding regions in the current primary assembly. This project reports the variation between those alternate haplotype clones and the primary assembly.