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Genomic resources for Myzus persicae: EST sequencing, SNP identification, and microarray design

John S Ramsey1, Alex CC Wilson2,3, Martin de Vos1, Qi Sun4, Cecilia Tamborindeguy5, Agnese Winfield6, Gaynor Malloch6, Dawn M Smith5, Brian Fenton6, Stewart M Gray5 and Georg Jander1*

Author Affiliations

1 Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Tower Road, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

2 Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, USA

3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

4 Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

5 USDA/ARS, Plant Protection Research Unit, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

6 Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, UK

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BMC Genomics 2007, 8:423 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-423

Published: 16 November 2007

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Additional file 1:

Collection and life cycle characterization of aphid lineages. This table provides information on aphids collected for this study, including host plant and site of collection, and results of life cycle characterization.

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BlastX comparisons of M. persicae contigs to GenBank DNA sequences. This table provides a working annotation of unigenes described in this study, based on BlastX comparisons to GenBank DNA sequences.

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Additional file 3:

Full listing of M. persicae ESTs, along with the source cDNA libraries. This table lists accession numbers of all ESTs sequenced in this study, in association with the contig to which they belong and the library from which they are derived.

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Secreted proteins in salivary glands, as predicted by SignalP 3.0. This table provides annotation and signal peptide prediction information for unigenes overrepresented in the salivary gland library.

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Potential SNPs identified based on sequence differences among M. persicae lineages. This table lists SNPs identified among the sequences generated in this study by PolyBayes with a probability cutoff of 0.84.

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High-confidence SNPs, represented by at least two reads in at least two M. persicae lineages. This table provides a list of filtered SNPs likely to represent polymorphisms between M. persicae lineages.

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Additional file 7:

PCR primers used in this study. This table lists the sequences for all PCR primers used in this study.

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