Sequencing the genome of the Burmese python']python (Python']Python molurus bivittatus) as a model for studying extreme adaptations in snakes

被引:58
作者
Castoe, Todd A. [1 ]
de Koning, A. P. Jason [1 ]
Hall, Kathryn T. [1 ]
Yokoyama, Ken D. [1 ]
Gu, Wanjun [2 ]
Smith, Eric N. [3 ]
Feschotte, Cedric [3 ]
Uetz, Peter [4 ]
Ray, David A. [5 ]
Dobry, Jason [6 ]
Bogden, Robert [6 ]
Mackessy, Stephen P. [7 ]
Bronikowski, Anne M. [8 ]
Warren, Wesley C. [9 ]
Secor, Stephen M. [10 ]
Pollock, David D. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, Dept Biochem & Mol Genet, Sch Med, Aurora, CO 80045 USA
[2] Southeast Univ, Key Lab Child Dev & Learning Sci, Minist Educ, Nanjing 210096, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Biol, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[4] Univ Delaware, Ctr Bioinformat & Computat Biol, Newark, DE 19711 USA
[5] Mississippi State Univ, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
[6] Amplicon Express, Pullman, WA 99163 USA
[7] Univ No Colorado, Sch Biol Sci, Greeley, CO 80631 USA
[8] Iowa State Univ, Dept Ecol Evolut & Organismal Biol, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[9] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
[10] Univ Alabama, Dept Biol Sci, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
来源
GENOME BIOLOGY | 2011年 / 12卷 / 07期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
EVOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; REPTILES; CHROMOSOMES; PROPOSAL; ORIGIN; GENES;
D O I
10.1186/gb-2011-12-7-406
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
The Consortium for Snake Genomics is in the process of sequencing the genome and creating transcriptomic resources for the Burmese python. Here, we describe how this will be done, what analyses this work will include, and provide a timeline.
引用
收藏
页数:8
相关论文
共 31 条
[1]  
[Anonymous], UCSC Genome Browser LiftOver Utility
[2]  
[Anonymous], J HERED
[3]  
BIRNEY E, 2009, NATURE, V461, P168, DOI DOI 10.1038/461168A
[4]   Dynamic Nucleotide Mutation Gradients and Control Region Usage in Squamate Reptile Mitochondrial Genomes [J].
Castoe, T. A. ;
Gu, W. ;
de Koning, A. P. J. ;
Daza, J. M. ;
Jiang, Z. J. ;
Parkinson, C. L. ;
Pollock, D. D. .
CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH, 2009, 127 (2-4) :112-127
[5]   Discovery of Highly Divergent Repeat Landscapes in Snake Genomes Using High-Throughput Sequencing [J].
Castoe, Todd A. ;
Hall, Kathryn T. ;
Mboulas, Marcel L. Guibotsy ;
Gu, Wanjun ;
de Koning, A. P. Jason ;
Fox, Samuel E. ;
Poole, Alexander W. ;
Vemulapalli, Vijetha ;
Daza, Juan M. ;
Mockler, Todd ;
Smith, Eric N. ;
Feschotte, Cedric ;
Pollock, David D. .
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2011, 3 :641-653
[6]   A proposal to sequence the genome of a garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) [J].
Castoe, Todd A. ;
Bronikowski, Anne M. ;
Brodie, Edmund D., III ;
Edwards, Scott V. ;
Pfrender, Michael E. ;
Shapiro, Michael D. ;
Pollock, David D. ;
Warren, Wesley C. .
STANDARDS IN GENOMIC SCIENCES, 2011, 4 (02) :257-270
[7]   Evidence for an ancient adaptive episode of convergent molecular evolution [J].
Castoe, Todd A. ;
de Koning, A. P. Jason ;
Kim, Hyun-Min ;
Gu, Wanjun ;
Noonan, Brice P. ;
Naylor, Gavin ;
Jiang, Zhi J. ;
Parkinson, Christopher L. ;
Pollock, David D. .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2009, 106 (22) :8986-8991
[8]   Adaptive Evolution and Functional Redesign of Core Metabolic Proteins in Snakes [J].
Castoe, Todd A. ;
Jiang, Zhi J. ;
Gu, Wanjun ;
Wang, Zhengyuan O. ;
Pollock, David D. .
PLOS ONE, 2008, 3 (05)
[9]   Developmental basis of limblessness and axial patterning in snakes [J].
Cohn, MJ ;
Tickle, C .
NATURE, 1999, 399 (6735) :474-479
[10]   Matched regulation of gastrointestinal performance in the Burmese python']python, Python']Python molurus [J].
Cox, Christian L. ;
Secor, Stephen M. .
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, 2008, 211 (07) :1131-1140