Pyrosequencing and de novo assembly of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) transcriptome to study the adaptability of krill to climate-induced environmental changes

• Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources
• Main Authors: Meyer, Bettina, Martini, Paolo, Biscontin, Alberto, DePitta, Cristiano, Romualdi, Ciara, Teschke, Mathias, Frickenhaus, Stephan, Harms, Lars, Freier, Ulrich, Jarman, Simon, Kawaguchi, So
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2015
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37736/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37736/1/Meyer_et_al-2015-Molecular_Ecology_Resources.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45360; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45360.d001

The Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, has a key position in the Southern Ocean food web by serving as direct link between primary producers and apex predators. The southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, where the majority of the krill population is located, is experiencing one of the mos...