title: BoaF
design: B. constrictor female blood was provided by Monica Albe at UC Berkeley and used for DNA and RNA isolation. DNA and RNA from B. constrictor male blood was provided by Mark Stenglein at UC San Francisco.  RNA was extracted with the Qiagen RNeasy kit according to the manufacturer's protocol. Library preparation and sequencing were performed at the Beijing Genomics Institute (en.genomics.cn).