Analysis of a deep transcriptome from the mantle tissue of Patella vulgata Linnaeus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Patellidae) reveals candidate biomineralising genes

Short read Illumina data for the de novo assembly of a non-model snail species transcriptome (Radix balthica, Basommatophora, Pulmonata), and a comparison of assembler performance

(2011) Barbara Feldmeyer et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transcriptome sequencing and microarray development for the Manila clam, Ruditapes philippinarum: genomic tools for environmental monitoring

(2011) Massimo Milan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Identification and Characterisation of a Calcium Carbonate-Binding Protein, Blue Mussel Shell Protein (BMSP), from the Nacreous Layer

(2011) Michio Suzuki et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Possible functions of Dpp in gastropod shell formation and shell coiling

(2011) Keisuke Shimizu et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

(2011) R. D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Identification of Genes Directly Involved in Shell Formation and Their Functions in Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata

(2011) Dong Fang et al.   PLoS One

Insights into shell deposition in the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica: gene discovery in the mantle transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing

(2010) Melody S Clark et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Pinctada margaritifera calcifying mantle and shell: focus on biomineralization

(2010) Caroline Joubert et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Bone Morphogenetic Proteins: A critical review

(2010) Beth Bragdon et al.   CELLULAR SIGNALLING

Clustered Fox genes in lophotrochozoans and the evolution of the bilaterian Fox gene cluster

(2010) Sebastian M. Shimeld et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Optimization of de novo transcriptome assembly from next-generation sequencing data

(2010) Y. Surget-Groba et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Developmental transcriptome of Aplysia californica'

(2010) Andreas Heyland et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

The role of small leucine-rich proteoglycans in collagen fibrillogenesis

(2010) Sebastian Kalamajski et al.   MATRIX BIOLOGY

Biases in Illumina transcriptome sequencing caused by random hexamer priming

(2010) Kasper D. Hansen et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Proteomic analysis of the organic matrix of the abalone Haliotis asinina calcified shell

(2010) Benjamin Marie et al.   Proteome Science

DOG 1.0: illustrator of protein domain structures

(2009) Jian Ren et al.   CELL RESEARCH

A novel role for dpp in the shaping of bivalve shells revealed in a conserved molluscan developmental program

(2009) Koryu Kin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Parallel Evolution of Nacre Building Gene Sets in Molluscs

(2009) Daniel J. Jackson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An Acidic Matrix Protein, Pif, Is a Key Macromolecule for Nacre Formation

(2009) M. Suzuki et al.   SCIENCE

Thrombospondin-2 and SPARC/osteonectin are critical regulators of bone remodeling

(2009) Anne M. Delany et al.   Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling

The role of SPARC in extracellular matrix assembly

(2009) Amy D. Bradshaw   Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Expression patterns of engrailed and dpp in the gastropod Lymnaea stagnalis

(2008) Minoru Iijima et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH