TY - JOUR AU - Meyer, Eli AU - Aglyamova, Galina V. AU - Wang, Shi AU - Buchanan-Carter, Jade AU - Abrego, David AU - Colbourne, John K. AU - Willis, Bette L. AU - Matz, Mikhail V. PY - 2009 DA - 2009/05/12 TI - Sequencing and de novo analysis of a coral larval transcriptome using 454 GSFlx JO - BMC Genomics SP - 219 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - New methods are needed for genomic-scale analysis of emerging model organisms that exemplify important biological questions but lack fully sequenced genomes. For example, there is an urgent need to understand the potential for corals to adapt to climate change, but few molecular resources are available for studying these processes in reef-building corals. To facilitate genomics studies in corals and other non-model systems, we describe methods for transcriptome sequencing using 454, as well as strategies for assembling a useful catalog of genes from the output. We have applied these methods to sequence the transcriptome of planulae larvae from the coral Acropora millepora. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-219 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-10-219 ID - Meyer2009 ER -