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- Title
Illumina-based de novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis of Chinese forest musk deer.
- Authors
ZHONGXIAN XU; HANG JIE; BINLONG CHEN; GAUR, UMA; NAN WU; JIAN GAO; PINMING LI; GUIJUN ZHAO; DEJUN ZENG; MINGYAO YANG; DIYAN LI
- Abstract
The Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii Flerov) is an endangered artiodactyl mammal. The musk secreted by sexually mature males is highly valued for alleged pharmaceutical properties and perfume manufacturing. However, the genomic and transcriptomic resources of musk deer remain deficiently represented and poorly understood. Next-generation sequencing technique is an efficient method for generating an enormous amount of sequence data that can represent a large number of genes and their expression levels. In the present study, we used Illumina HiSeq technology to perform de novo assembly of heart and musk gland transcriptomes from the Chinese forest musk deer. A total of 239,383 transcripts and 176,450 unigenes were obtained, of which 37,329 unigenes were matched to known sequences in the NCBI nonredundant protein (Nr) database; 31,039 unigenes were assigned to 61 GO terms, and 11,782 to 332 KEGG pathways. Additionally, 592 and 2282 differentially expressed genes were found to be specifically expressed in the heart and musk gland, respectively. The abundant transcriptomic data generated in the present report will provide a comprehensive sequence resource for Chinese forest musk deer as well as lay down a foundation which will help in accelerating genetic and functional genomics research in this species.
- Subjects
MUSK deer; RNA sequencing; MOSCHUS berezovskii; FUNCTIONAL genomics; GENE expression
- Publication
Journal of Genetics, 2017, Vol 96, Issue 6, p1033
- ISSN
0022-1333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12041-017-0872-x