Prothoracic glands from tar mutant
In order to identify novel genes necessary for quinone synthesis in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum, transcriptome sequencing were performed in different odoriferous stink gland tissues compared to a control tissue, the anterior abdomen. Raw reads were mapped to the mRNAs of the official gene set (OGS) from Beetlebase 3.0 to construct library. For details, check Li et al., 2013 (PMID: 23874211; doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003596).