title: De novo assembly and characterization of the transcriptome in the desiccation-tolerant moss Syntrichia caninervis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Syntrichia caninervis is a desiccation-tolerant moss and the dominant bryophyte of the Biological Soil Crusts (BSCs) found in the Mojave and Gurbantunggut deserts. Next generation high throughput sequencing technologies offer an efficient and economic choice for characterizing non-model organism transcriptomes with little or no prior molecular information available.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this study, we employed next generation, high-throughput, Illumina RNA-Seq to analyze the poly-(A) + mRNA from hydrated, dehydrating and desiccated S. caninervis gametophores. Approximately 58.0 million paired-end short reads were obtained and 92,240 unigenes were assembled with an average size of 493 bp, N50 value of 662 bp and a total size of 45.48 Mbp. Sequence similarity searches against five public databases (NR, Swiss-Prot, COSMOSS, KEGG and COG) found 54,125 unigenes (58.7%) with significant similarity to an existing sequence (E-value ≤ 1e-5) and could be annotated. Gene Ontology (GO) annotation assigned 24,183 unigenes to the three GO terms: Biological Process, Cellular Component or Molecular Function. GO comparison between P. patens and S. caninervis demonstrated similar sequence enrichment across all three GO categories. 29,370 deduced polypeptide sequences were assigned Pfam domain information and categorized into 4,212 Pfam domains/families. Using the PlantTFDB, 778 unigenes were predicted to be involved in the regulation of transcription and were classified into 49 transcription factor families. Annotated unigenes were mapped to the KEGG pathways and further annotated using MapMan. Comparative genomics revealed that 44% of protein families are shared in common by S. caninervis, P. patens and Arabidopsis thaliana and that 80% are shared by both moss species.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study is one of the first comprehensive transcriptome analyses of the moss S. caninervis. Our data extends our knowledge of bryophyte transcriptomes, provides an insight to plants adapted to the arid regions of central Asia, and continues the development of S. caninervis as a model for understanding the molecular aspects of desiccation-tolerance.
authors.forename: Bei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China. zhangdy@ms.xjb.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Daoyuan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaoshuang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Honglan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Wood
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*; D019068:Bryopsida / Q000235:genetics*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D003890:Desiccation; D063990:Gene Ontology; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000379:methods*; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways / Q000235:genetics; D008954:Models, Biological; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013045:Species Specificity; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D059467:Transcriptome / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D014157:Transcription Factors
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