Siberian sturgeon multi-tissue reference transcriptome database

• Published in: Database
• Main Authors: Klopp, Christophe, Cabau, Cédric, Greif, Gonzalo, Lasalle, André, Di Landro, Santiago, Vizziano-Cantonnet, Denise
• Other Authors: Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación-Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos ANII-DINARA, Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020
• Subjects: Siberian sturgeon
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baaa082; http://academic.oup.com/database/article-pdf/doi/10.1093/database/baaa082/34526692/baaa082.pdf

Abstract Motivation: Siberian sturgeon is a long lived and late maturing fish farmed for caviar production in 50 countries. Functional genomics enable to find genes of interest for fish farming. In the absence of a reference genome, a reference transcriptome is very useful for sequencing based functional studies. Results: We present here a high-quality transcriptome assembly database built using RNA-seq reads coming from brain, pituitary, gonadal, liver, stomach, kidney, anterior kidney, heart, embryonic and pre-larval tissues. It will facilitate crucial research on topics such as puberty, reproduction, growth, food intake and immunology. This database represents a major contribution to the publicly available sturgeon transcriptome reference datasets. Availability: The database is publicly available at http://siberiansturgeontissuedb.sigenae.org Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Database online.