Generation and analysis of transcriptomic resources for a model system on the rise: the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida and its dinoflagellate endosymbiont

• Published in: BMC genomics Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 258
• Main Authors: Sunagawa, Shinichi, Wilson, Emily C, Thaler, Michael, Smith, Marc L, Caruso, Carlo, Pringle, John R, Weis, Virginia M, Medina, Mónica, Schwarz, Jodi A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 05.06.2009; Springer; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Animals; BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Cluster Analysis; Databases, Genetic; Dinoflagellida - genetics; DNA sequencing; Expressed Sequence Tags; Gene Expression Profiling; Gene Library; Genetic aspects; Genetic transcription; Genetics & Heredity; Methods; Nucleotide sequencing; Sea Anemones - genetics; Sea-anemones; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Symbiosis - genetics; United States
• ISSN: 1471-2164; 1471-2164
• DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-258

The most diverse marine ecosystems, coral reefs, depend upon a functional symbiosis between cnidarian hosts and unicellular dinoflagellate algae. The molecular mechanisms underlying the establishment, maintenance, and breakdown of the symbiotic partnership are, however, not well understood. Efforts...