Abstract
Whole-transcriptome shotgun sequencing, or RNA-seq, is a next-generation sequencing technique that enables quantitative determination of total transcripts present to serve as a proxy for the level of expression of the corresponding gene in a cell, tissue, or whole organism (Wang et al., 2009). Compared with microarrays and other hybridization-based approaches, RNA-seq does not suffer from cross-hybridization bias and is not limited by availability of genomic resources for the organism studied (Ekblom and Galindo, 2011), making this technique very attractive in studying non-model organisms for which genomic data are scarce.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Transcriptomics in Entomological Research |
Publisher | CABI International |
Pages | 136-163 |
Number of pages | 28 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781789243147 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781789243130 |
State | Published - Jan 1 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
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