RNA-seq data from mature male gonads of marine mussels Mytilus edulis and M. galloprovincialis
Angel P. Diz,
Mónica R. Romero,
Andrés Pérez-Figueroa,
Willie J. Swanson,
David O.F. Skibinski
Affiliations
Angel P. Diz
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Marine Research Centre, University of Vigo (CIM-UVIGO), Isla de Toralla, Vigo, Spain; Corresponding author at: Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Mónica R. Romero
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Marine Research Centre, University of Vigo (CIM-UVIGO), Isla de Toralla, Vigo, Spain
Andrés Pérez-Figueroa
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Willie J. Swanson
Department of Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
David O.F. Skibinski
Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
The mussels Mytilus edulis and Mytilus galloprovincialis are marine organisms with external fertilization able to hybridize where their distributions overlap allowing the study of reproductive isolation mechanisms in nature. We provide raw data of a transcriptomic analysis of mature male gonads from these two Mytilus spp. using NGS (Illumina) technology and a preliminary list of transcript that were functionally annotated showing species-specific differential expression. A shortlist including some of these genes and their corresponding proteins have been thoroughly analysed and discussed in Romero et al. (2018, Submitted for publication). Keywords: Invertebrates, Mollusks, Mature male gonads, Transcriptomics, Illumina paired-end, De novo sequencing
