The molecular age of medicine has provided genomic tools that can identify a large number of potential therapeutic targets in individual patients, heralding the promise of personalized treatment.
A major hurdle in obtaining functional data from emerging model systems like Thalictrum, is a lack of transgenic techniques and genomic tools that are readily available for established model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana.
Microarrays are high-throughput genomic tools that allow the comparison of global expression changes in thousands of genes between different experimental conditions in cell/tissue analysis, and they have been widely adopted for analyzing the global gene expression profiles in vivo and in vitro [10].
These resources for genetic investigations include functional genomic tools that compare the expression profiles of thousands of genes under different conditions.
In this manuscript we report the development of new genomic tools that will facilitate these discoveries in two Caribbean coral species, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata.
3′UTRs contain powerful regulatory elements that are critical in various biological processes, yet remain poorly characterized because due to the absence of genomic tools that allow their systematic study.
The only species with significant genomic tools that is not of biomedical or agricultural importance is the African butterfly (Bicyclus anyana), an evo-devo model for wing pattern development [ 98].
Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries are key genomic tools that enable positional cloning of important traits, synteny evaluation, and the development of genome framework physical maps for genetic linkage and genome sequencing.
The transcriptome assembled here will provide basic genomic tools that will enrich the study of herbicide resistance evolution as well as add to a variety of ecological genetics and evolutionary ecology investigations.
