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Transcriptomics of a giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii): de novo assembly, annotation and marker discovery.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Jung Hyungtaek, Lyons Russell E, Dinh Hung, Hurwood David A, McWilliam Sean, Mather Peter B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii or GFP), is the most economically important freshwater crustacean species. However, as little is known about its genome, 454 pyrosequencing of cDNA was undertaken to characterise its transcriptome and identify genes important for growth. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A collection of 787,731 sequence reads (244.37 Mb) obtained from 454...
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