A de novo assembly of the newt transcriptome combined with proteomic validation identifies new protein families expressed during tissue regeneration

摘要

BackgroundNotophthalmus viridescens, an urodelian amphibian, represents an excellent model organism to study regenerative processes, but mechanistic insights into molecular processes driving regeneration have been hindered by a paucity and poor annotation of coding nucleotide sequences. The enormous genome size and the lack of a closely related reference genome have so far prevented assembly of the urodelian genome.