Enhancement of de novo sequencing, assembly and annotation of the Mongolian gerbil genome with transcriptome sequencing and assembly from several different tissues

Abstract Background The Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) has historically been used as a model organism for the auditory and visual systems, stroke/ischemia, epilepsy and aging related research since 1935 when laboratory gerbils were separated from their wild counterparts. In this study we r...

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Main Authors: Shifeng Cheng, Yuan Fu, Yaolei Zhang, Wenfei Xian, Hongli Wang, Benedikt Grothe, Xin Liu, Xun Xu, Achim Klug, Elizabeth A. McCullagh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-019-6276-y