Year: 2008
Type: article
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.
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn096
Institutions: Utah State University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Oregon, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, San Francisco State University, Auburn University, University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: Correlating cardiac thermal performance limits with transcriptome profiles during thermal acclimation of the intertidal porcelain crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes, Neuroendocrine Control of Salinity-Mediated Carbonic Anhydrase Expression in the Gills of Euryhaline Crustaceans, Symposium: Recent Advances in Crustacean Genomics: a 2-year progress report, a Late-Breaking Symposium at SICB 2008 Annual Meeting, to be held January 2-6, 2008 in San Antonio, TX.
OpenAlex ID: W2096676263