New paper: transcriptome resources for salmonids
Recently published collaboration with our group and Glasgow Polyomics, including the efforts of masters and PhD student researchers. De novo transcriptome assembly, annotation and comparison of four ecological and evolutionary model salmonid fish species Madeleine Carruthers, Andrey A. Yurchenko, Julian J. Augley, Colin E. Adams, Pawel Herzyk and Kathryn R. Elmer The paper is available open access at BMC Genomics, 19, 32. Annotated transcript sequences are available from NCBI or from Kathryn by email. Abstract Background: Salmonid fishes exhibit high levels of phenotypic and ecological variation and are thus ideal model systems for studying evolutionary processes of adaptive divergence and speciation. Furthermore, salmonids are of major interest in fisheries, aquaculture, and conservation research. Improving understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying traits in these species would significantly progress research in these fields. Here we generate high quality de nov