A cDNA resource for the cephalochordate amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae.
Cephalochordates are the basal invertebrate chordates within the phylum Chordata. They are widely used as a model system for research in evolutionary developmental biology (EvoDevo) to understand the basic patterning mechanisms for the chordate body plan and the origin of vertebrates. Recently, the genome of the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae was sequenced, which further brings this organism to the front for comparative genomic studies. In this paper, we report the generation of large-scale 5'- and 3'-expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from B. floridae and the complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) resource for this species. Both 5'- and 3'-ESTs were sequenced for approximately 140,000 cDNA clones derived from five developmental stages, and the cDNA clones were subsequently grouped into independent clusters using 3'-EST sequences. We identified 21,229 cDNA clusters, and each corresponds to a unique transcript species from B. floridae. We then chose 24,020 cDNA clones representing all of these 21,229 clusters to generate the "Branchiostoma floridae Gene Collection Release 1." We also constructed a database with a searchable interface for this EST dataset and the related information on "Branchiostoma floridae Gene Collection Release 1." This set of cDNA clones along with our cDNA database will serve as an important resource for future research in this basal chordate. This Gene Collection and the original 140,000 individual cDNA clones are available to the research community upon request.
Yu
Jr-Kai
JK
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, Republic of China. jkyu@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Wang
Ming-Chih
MC
Shin-I
Tadasu
T
Kohara
Yuji
Y
Holland
Linda Z
LZ
Satoh
Noriyuki
N
Satou
Yutaka
Y
D000818:Animals; D002816:Chordata, Nonvertebrate / Q000235:genetics*; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags
D018076:DNA, Complementary
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