Table 2

Examples of biomarker genes of ecotoxicological interest

Parallel pyrosequencing

GenBank


Gene

Accession

Length (bases)a

Accession

Length (bases)


Vitellogenin

ZOVI0010766

1,826

AJ416326

1,229

Zona Pelucida 2

ZOVI0014264

1,100

-

-

Zona Pelucida 3

ZOVI0034606

989

-

-

Estrogen receptor

ZOVI0044876

852

AY223902

3,256

Metallothionein

ZOVI0049137

363

X97270

312

Heat-shock protein 70

ZOVI0038668

1,460

-

-

Heat-shock protein 90

ZOVI0020982

938

-

-

Cytochrome P450 1A

ZOVI0005392

1,652

-

-

Superoxide dismutase

ZOVI0007529

747

-

-

Glutathione peroxidase

ZOVI0037346

1,208

-

-


aLength of longest contiguous fragment

Kristiansson et al. BMC Genomics 2009 10:345   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-345

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