title: A de novo transcriptome assembly of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) with predicted alternative splices, single nucleotide polymorphisms and transcript expression estimates.
abstract: The blow fly Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Meigen) is a nonmodel organism with no reference genome that is associated with numerous areas of research spanning the ecological, evolutionary, medical, veterinary and forensic sciences. To facilitate scientific discovery in this species, the transcriptome was assembled from more than six billion bases of Illumina and twenty-one million bases of 454 sequence derived from embryonic, larval, pupal, adult and larval salivary gland libraries. The assembly was carried out in a manner that enabled identification of putative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and alternative splices, and that provided expression estimates for various life history stages and for salivary tissue. The assembled transcriptome was also used to identify transcribed transposable elements in L. sericata. The results of this study will enable blow fly biologists, dipterists and comparative genomicists to more rapidly develop and test molecular and genetic hypotheses, especially those regarding blow fly development and salivary gland biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
authors.forename: S-H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Sze
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dunham
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Carey
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Edman
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fjeldsted
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Nuzhdin
authors.forename: Aaron M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tarone
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae / Q000235:genetics; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004175:Diptera / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression; D049750:Genome, Insect; D008297:Male; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D005810:Multigene Family; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements