Transcriptome assembly for a colour-polymorphic grasshopper (Gomphocerus sibiricus) with a very large genome size

Abstract Background The club-legged grasshopper Gomphocerus sibiricus is a Gomphocerinae grasshopper with a promising future as model species for studying the maintenance of colour-polymorphism, the genetics of sexual ornamentation and genome size evolution. However, limited molecular resources are...

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Main Authors: Abhijeet Shah, Joseph I. Hoffman, Holger Schielzeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-019-5756-4