The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation.

Journal article

The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads and a fosmid-pooling strategy, along with transcriptomes of development and stress response and the proteome of the shell. The oyster genome is highly polymorphic and rich in repetitive sequences, with some transposable elements still actively shaping variation. Transcriptome studies ...

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Authors: Zhang, G; Fang, X; Guo, X; Li, L; Luo, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Nature
• Volume: 490
• Issue: 7418
• Pages: 49-54
• Publication date: 2012-10-01
• DOI: 10.1038/nature11413
• EISSN: 1476-4687
• ISSN: 0028-0836
• Language: English
• Keywords: Genomics; Genes, Homeobox; Adaptation, Physiological; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Transcriptome; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; Molecular Sequence Data; Larva; Animals; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; Female; DNA Transposable Elements; HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; Genome; Crassostrea; Mass Spectrometry; Evolution, Molecular; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Humans; Polymorphism, Genetic; Stress, Physiological; Animal Shells; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins