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De novo assembly of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin leucocyte transcriptome to identify putative genes involved in the aquatic adaptation and immune response.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Gui Duan, Jia Kuntong, Xia Jia, Yang Lili, Chen Jialin, Wu Yuping, Yi Meisheng
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BACKGROUND: The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis), a marine mammal species inhabited in the waters of Southeast Asia, South Africa and Australia, has attracted much attention because of the dramatic decline in population size in the past decades, which raises the concern of extinction. So far, this species is poorly characterized at molecular level due to little sequence information available in...
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