id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-329617-gzivtsho Lee, Albert K. De novo transcriptome reconstruction and annotation of the Egyptian rousette bat 2015-12-07 .txt text/plain 5058 292 52 BACKGROUND: The Egyptian Rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus), a common fruit bat species found throughout Africa and the Middle East, was recently identified as a natural reservoir host of Marburg virus. We performed de novo transcriptome assembly using deep RNA sequencing data from 11 distinct tissues from one male and one female bat. Rousettus aegyptiacus, commonly known as the Egyptian rousette bat, has been identified as a natural reservoir host for MARV through ecological, epidemiological, and experimental studies [10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 24] . aegyptiacus from a de novo assembly of RNA sequencing data from 11 tissues isolated from a male and a female bat. Without a common ground for comparison, it was difficult to perform downstream comparative analyses such as differential gene expression analysis; therefore, we combined contigs from all tissues into one unified, nonredundant reference transcriptome (Fig. 1d) . We further assessed biological validity of our transcriptome assembly through gene Ontology (GO) analysis of tissue-specific expression profiles. ./cache/cord-329617-gzivtsho.txt ./txt/cord-329617-gzivtsho.txt