Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Tunicates are invertebrate members of the chordate phylum, and are considered to be the sister group of vertebrates. Tunicates are composed of ascidians, thaliaceans, and appendicularians. With the advent of inexpensive high-throughput sequencing, the number of sequenced tunicate genomes is expected to rise sharply within the coming years. To facilitate comparative genomics within the tunicates, and between tunicates and vertebrates, standardized rules for the nomenclature of tunicate genetic elements need to be established. Here we propose a set of nomenclature rules, consensual within the community, for predicted genes, pseudogenes, transcripts, operons, transcriptional cis-regulatory regions, transposable elements, and transgenic constructs. In addition, the document proposes guidelines for naming transgenic and mutant lines.
Source: genesis
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22822
Institutions: New York University, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Lyon 1 Université, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Kyoto University, Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 1, Hokkaido University, The University of Osaka, University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of aging and regeneration in colonial chordate, Cellular determinants of cardiopharyngeal multipotency and early fate choices, Development of forward gentics methods in appendicularians as a novel chordate model organism, Genes, cells, and pathways that regulate urochordate allogeneic stem cell competition and their mammalian homologues, Specification mechanisms of three embryonic axes (animal-vegetal, anteior-posterior, and left-right axes) during ascidian embryogenesis, Mechanisms that specify the animal-vegetal axis in early animal embryos, Transcriptional control of collective cell migration
OpenAlex ID: W1876881048