© 2014 Elsevier B.V. The red cusk-eel (Genypterus chilensis) is an endemic fish species distributed along the coasts of the Eastern South Pacific. Biological studies on this fish are scarce, and genomic information for G. ...

In the last decades, diverse techniques have emerged to study the transcriptome, i.e. the full range of messenger RNA, or mRNA, molecules expressed by an organism. High throughput sequencing and microarray techniques have ...

Fungal invasive infections are an increasing health problem. The intrinsic complexity of pathogenic fungi and the unmet clinical need for new and more effective treatments requires a detailed knowledge of the infection ...

Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa (A Chev) Liang et Ferguson) is a sub-tropical vine species from the Actinidiaceae family native to China. This species has an allohexaploid genome (from diploid and autotetraploid ...

Vriesea carinata is an endemic bromeliad from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. It has trichome and tank system in their leaves which allows to absorb water and nutrients. It belongs to Bromeliaceae family, which includes ...

Twenty eight out of 44 Chilean freshwater fishes have been considered to fall within the vulnerable or threatened category. Thus, information about the biology, ecology and the effects of the anthropic activity on these ...

This article describes how the proteomic and transcriptomic data were produced during a study of the reproductive proteins of Pomacea maculata, an aquatic apple snail laying colorful aerial eggs, and provides public access ...

Novel simple nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) were identified using 454 transcriptome pyrosequencing in the snail Concholepas concholepas. From 2,991 contigs annotated with SNPs from De novo assembly, 7,069 putative polymorphisms ...