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- Title
Transcriptome sequencing in an ecologically important tree species: assembly, annotation, and marker discovery.
- Authors
Parchman, Thomas L; Geist, Katherine S; Grahnen, Johan A; Benkman, Craig W; Buerkle, C Alex
- Abstract
Massively parallel sequencing of cDNA is now an efficient route for generating enormous sequence collections that represent expressed genes. This approach provides a valuable starting point for characterizing functional genetic variation in non-model organisms, especially where whole genome sequencing efforts are currently cost and time prohibitive. The large and complex genomes of pines (Pinus spp.) have hindered the development of genomic resources, despite the ecological and economical importance of the group. While most genomic studies have focused on a single species (P. taeda), genomic level resources for other pines are insufficiently developed to facilitate ecological genomic research. Lodgepole pine (P. contorta) is an ecologically important foundation species of montane forest ecosystems and exhibits substantial adaptive variation across its range in western North America. Here we describe a sequencing study of expressed genes from P. contorta, including their assembly and annotation, and their potential for molecular marker development to support population and association genetic studies.
- Publication
BMC genomics, 2010, Vol 11, p180
- ISSN
1471-2164
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2164-11-180