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Ablation of a Single Cell From Eight-cell Embryos of the Amphipod Crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis
Published on: March 16, 2014
Recent advances in crustacean genomics
Jonathon H Stillman1, John K Colbourne, Carol E Lee
1*The Romberg Tiburon Center and Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 3150 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA; The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, 915 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7107, USA; Department of Zoology, 430 Lincoln Drive, Birge Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; Department of Molecular Cell Biology; Department of Integrative Biology and HHMI, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA; Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Charleston, OR 97420, USA; Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salsbury Cove, ME 04672, USA; **Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA; University of Oregon, Institute of Molecular Biology, Eugene, OR 94703, USA; Department of Biology, Utah State University, 5305 Old Main Hill Road, Logan, UT 84322-5305, USA.
Abstract:
Crustaceans are a diverse and ancient group of arthropods that have long been studied as interesting model systems in biology, especially for understanding animal evolution and physiology and for environmentally relevant studies. Like many model systems, advances in DNA-sequencing methodologies have led to a large amount of genomics-related projects. The purpose of this article is to highlight the genome projects and functional genomics (transcriptomics) projects that are currently underway in crustacean biology. Specifically, we have surveyed the amount of publicly available DNA sequence data (both genomic and EST data) across all crustacean taxa for which a significant number of DNA sequences have been generated. Several ongoing projects are presented including the ecology of invasive species, thermal physiology, ion and water balance, ecology and evolutionary biology, and developmental biology.
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