The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

Brenton R. Graveley, Angela N. Brooks, Joseph W. Carlson, Michael O. Duff, Jane M. Landolin, Li Yang, Carlo G. Artieri, Marijke J. Van Baren, Nathan Boley, Benjamin W. Booth, James B. Brown, Lucy Cherbas, Carrie A. Davis, Alex Dobin, Renhua Li, Wei Lin, John H. Malone, Nicolas R. Mattiuzzo, David Miller, David SturgillBrian B. Tuch, Chris Zaleski, Dayu Zhang, Marco Blanchette, Sandrine Dudoit, Brian Eads, Richard E. Green, Ann Hammonds, Lichun Jiang, Phil Kapranov, Laura Langton, Norbert Perrimon, Jeremy E. Sandler, Kenneth H. Wan, Aarron Willingham, Yu Zhang, Yi Zou, Justen Andrews, Peter J. Bickel, Steven E. Brenner, Michael R. Brent, Peter Cherbas, Thomas R. Gingeras, Roger A. Hoskins, Thomas C. Kaufman, Brian Oliver, Susan E. Celniker

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Abstract

Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most well studied genetic model organisms; nonetheless, its genome still contains unannotated coding and non-coding genes, transcripts, exons and RNA editing sites. Full discovery and annotation are pre-requisites for understanding how the regulation of transcription, splicing and RNA editing directs the development of this complex organism. Here we used RNA-Seq, tiling microarrays and cDNA sequencing to explore the transcriptome in 30 distinct developmental stages. We identified 111,195 new elements, including thousands of genes, coding and non-coding transcripts, exons, splicing and editing events, and inferred protein isoforms that previously eluded discovery using established experimental, prediction and conservation-based approaches. These data substantially expand the number of known transcribed elements in the Drosophila genome and provide a high-resolution view of transcriptome dynamics throughout development.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)473-479
Number of pages7
JournalNature
Volume471
Issue number7339
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Mar 2011
Externally publishedYes

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