Transcriptome analysis of female and male Xiphophorus maculatus Jp 163 A
Xiphophorus maculatus
Large-scale transcriptome study desigend to gain a global view of the molecular mechanisms whereby gene expression may influence sexual dimorphism in Xiphophorus and to develop a database for future studies.  The 454-FLX massively parallel DNA sequencing platform was employed to obtain 742,771 and 721,543 reads from 2 normalized cDNA libraries generated from whole adult female and male X. maculatus Jp 163 A, respectively. The reads were assembled into contigs.