Project description:The catfish (Silurus lanzhouensis), a popular scaleless fish, is highly nutritious and of great commercial importance. However, transcriptome information related to growth traits in S.lanzhouensis are still unknown. In this study, muscle transcriptome data was used to study this issue by RNA-Seq. In total 44,176,578 to 52,345,588 raw reads were generated for each sample, 163,949 transcripts and 89,579 genes were obtained from the two groups. 843 DEGs showed significant differential expression among 89579 unigenes between two groups, of these, 366 DEGs were up-regulated while 477 DEGs were down-regulated.