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Transcriptome sequencing and positive selected genes analysis of Bombyx mandarina.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Cheng Tingcai, Fu Bohua, Wu Yuqian, Long Renwen, Liu Chun, Xia Qingyou
Abstract excerpt
The wild silkworm Bombyx mandarina is widely believed to be an ancestor of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori. Silkworms are often used as a model for studying the mechanism of species domestication. Here, we performed transcriptome sequencing of the wild silkworm using an Illumina HiSeq2000 platform. We produced 100,004,078 high-quality reads and assembled them into 50,773 contigs with an N50 length of 1764...
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