title: A survey of expressed sequence tags from the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) pituitary.
abstract: The pituitary plays significant roles in the regulation of physiological processes. In the current study, expressed sequence tag data was obtained for 1,920 clones from a normalized mixed-sex pituitary cDNA library. From these 3,840 sequences, a total of 524 contigs were assembled and 1,256 unique singletons identified. Assignment of functional annotation was performed through BLAST and gene ontology term assignment. Through in silico comparative mapping homologs were identified for 354 of the unigene sequences. These data provide the first functional information on many of the transcripts present in the rainbow trout pituitary.
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Kearneysville, West Virginia 25430, USA.
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gahr
authors.forename: Caird E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Rexroad
authors.forename: Matthew L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Rise
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Koop
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D020451:Contig Mapping; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015723:Gene Library; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017686:Oncorhynchus mykiss / Q000235:genetics*; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000502:physiology*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger