Sequence Evaluation of Four Pooled-Tissue Normalized Bovine cDNA Libraries and Construction of a Gene Index for Cattle

Table 1.

Production and Sequencing of Bovine EST Libraries

cDNA Library Tissue Collection animal % of RNA Fold normal Avg insert length (bp) No.of seq % GenBank nr match % Unique
MARC 1BOV Mesenteric lymph node 3 18 18.3 1300 ± 632 23,470 18 63
TIGR library ID: 2819 Hilar lymph node 3 18 (n = 500)
Post-pubertal ovary 4 18
Kidney-associated fat 3 7
Hypothalamus 3 18
Pituitary 2 18
Subcutaneous fat 3 3
MARC 2BOV Testis 1 15 16.8 1143 ± 594 16,494 23 65
TIGR library ID: 2820 Thymus 2 16 (n = 139)
Semitendenosous muscle 2 15
Longissimus muscle 2 16
Pancreas 2 6
Adrenal gland 2 16
Endometrium 4 16
MARC 3BOV Bone marrow 2 21 14.6 1188 ± 564 6,196 23 82
TIGR library ID: 2821 Alveolar macrophage 3 20 (n = 310)
Pre-pubertal ovary 3 19
Fetal semitendonosous muscle 5 20
Fetal longissimus muscle 5 20
MARC 4BOV whole embryos (pool of 4) d20 embryos 50 12.7 1008 ± 879 22,360 20 60
TIGR library ID: 2822 whole embryos (pool of 2) d40 embryos 50 (n = 232)
Total sequences 68,520
  • RNA from the indicated tissue was collected from one of five animals, with the exception of the d20 and d40 embryos which each represented a pool of embryos. The five animals used were (1) a 48-h-old Piedmontese-Angus cross calf, (2) a 20-d-old Simmental-MARCIII calf, (3) an 800-lb MARCIII yearling heifer, (4) a pregnant six-year-old Limousin cow, or (5) a d100 fetus from a Gelbvieh-Limousin cross. A pool of 5 ug of mRNA was used to construct each library, with percentage of the total amount of RNA from each tissue as indicated (% of RNA). Effective normalization of each library (fold normal) is expressed as the fold decrease in abundance of EF1a clones. The number of EST sequences deposited in GenBank from each library is indicated. Sequences were compared to GenBank nr database via BLASTanalysis, and percentage of clones showing significant match (score >300) is shown. The percentage of sequences with no significant overlap with other sequences from the same library is indicated (% unique).

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