Enhanced genome assembly and a new official gene set for Tribolium castaneum

2020-01-14 | journal article; research paper. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.

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​Enhanced genome assembly and a new official gene set for Tribolium castaneum​
Herndon, N.; Shelton, J.; Gerischer, L.; Ioannidis, P.; Ninova, M.; Dönitz, J. & Waterhouse, R. M et al.​ (2020) 
BMC Genomics21(1) art. 47​.​ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6394-6 

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Herndon, Nicolae; Shelton, Jennifer; Gerischer, Lizzy; Ioannidis, Panos; Ninova, Maria; Dönitz, Jürgen; Waterhouse, Robert M; Liang, Chun; Damm, Carsten; Siemanowski, Janna; Kitzmann, Peter; Ulrich, Julia; Dippel, Stefan; Oberhofer, Georg; Hu, Yonggang; Schwirz, Jonas; Schacht, Magdalena; Lehmann, Sabrina; Montino, Alice; Posnien, Nico ; Gurska, Daniela; Horn, Thorsten; Seibert, Jan; Vargas Jentzsch, Iris M; Panfilio, Kristen A; Li, Jianwei; Wimmer, Ernst A; Stappert, Dominik; Roth, Siegfried; Schröder, Reinhard; Park, Yoonseong; Schoppmeier, Michael; Chung, Ho-Ryun; Klingler, Martin; Kittelmann, Sebastian; Friedrich, Markus; Chen, Rui; Altincicek, Boran; Vilcinskas, Andreas; Zdobnov, Evgeny; Griffiths-Jones, Sam; Ronshaugen, Matthew; Stanke, Mario; Brown, Sue J; Bucher, Gregor
Abstract
The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has emerged as an important model organism for the study of gene function in development and physiology, for ecological and evolutionary genomics, for pest control and a plethora of other topics. RNA interference (RNAi), transgenesis and genome editing are well established and the resources for genome-wide RNAi screening have become available in this model. All these techniques depend on a high quality genome assembly and precise gene models. However, the first version of the genome assembly was generated by Sanger sequencing, and with a small set of RNA sequence data limiting annotation quality.
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14-January-2020
Journal
BMC Genomics 
ISSN
1471-2164
eISSN
1471-2164
Language
English
Sponsor
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2020

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