Nature Communications (May 2020)

High-resolution annotation of the mouse preimplantation embryo transcriptome using long-read sequencing

  • Yunbo Qiao,
  • Chao Ren,
  • Shisheng Huang,
  • Jie Yuan,
  • Xingchen Liu,
  • Jiao Fan,
  • Jianxiang Lin,
  • Susu Wu,
  • Qiuzhen Chen,
  • Xiaochen Bo,
  • Xiangyang Li,
  • Xingxu Huang,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Wenjie Shu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16444-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Until now, the transcriptome of preimplantation mouse embryos has only been analysed by short-read sequencing. Here, the authors perform long-read sequencing to provide a more detailed transcriptome of the preimplantation mouse embryo, identifying various novel transcripts, for example Kdm4dl.