Sequencing, de novo annotation and analysis of the first Anguilla anguilla transcriptome: EeelBase opens new perspectives for the study of the critically endangered european eel

Coppe, Alessandro; Pujolar, Jose Martin; Maes, Gregory; Larsen, Peter F; Hansen, Michael M; Bernatchez, Louis; Zane, Lorenzo; Bortoluzzi, Stefania

doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-635

Sequencing, de novo annotation and analysis of the first Anguilla anguilla transcriptome: EeelBase opens new perspectives for the study of the critically endangered european eel

Author:

Coppe, Alessandro

Pujolar, Jose Martin ; Maes, Gregory ; Larsen, Peter F ; Hansen, Michael M ; Bernatchez, Louis ; Zane, Lorenzo ; Bortoluzzi, Stefania

Keywords:

atlantic, genes, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology, Genetics & Heredity, ATLANTIC, GENES, Amino Acid Sequence, Anguilla, Animals, Base Sequence, Contig Mapping, Databases, Nucleic Acid, Databases, Protein, Endangered Species, Europe, Fish Proteins, Gene Expression Profiling, Genome, Humans, MicroRNAs, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Reproducibility of Results, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, Smegmamorpha, Species Specificity, Zebrafish, 06 Biological Sciences, 08 Information and Computing Sciences, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Bioinformatics, 31 Biological sciences, 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences

Abstract:

Background: Once highly abundant, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.; Anguillidae; Teleostei) is considered to be critically endangered and on the verge of extinction, as the stock has declined by 90-99% since the 1980s. Yet, the species is poorly characterized at molecular level with little sequence information available in public databases.