Microarray-based gene expression profiles in multiple tissues of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori.
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SUBMITTER: Xia Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2374993 | biostudies-literature |
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Project description:We designed and constructed a genome-wide microarray with 22,987 70-mer oligonucleotides covering the presently known and predicted genes in the silkworm genome, and surveyed the gene expression in multiple silkworm tissues on day 3 of the fifth instar. Clusters of tissue-prevalent and tissue-specific genes and genes that are differentially expressed in different tissues were identified, and they reflect well major tissue-specific functions on the molecular level. The data presented in this study provide a new resource for annotating the silkworm genome.
2009-08-28 | GSE17571 | GEO
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