Shrimp EST

Introduction

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Livestock Industries are both involved in characterising expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in the giant tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon.

Expressed sequence tag data were generated from complementary DNA libraries created from cephalathorax (C), eyestalk (E) and pleopod (P) tissue. Significant database matches indicating putative gene identities and species matches are grouped according to functional category in a Current Status table.

All shrimp EST sequences have been submitted to GenBank and more detail can be obtained from the article, "Tissue-Specific Expressed Sequence Tags from the Black Tiger Shrimp Penaeus monodon". Lehnert S.A., Wilson K.J., Byrne K and Moore S.S (1999). Marine Biotechnology 1, 465-476. CSIRO Livestock Industries have also submitted additional EST sequences subsequent to this publication and these are also included in the Shrimp EST PmESTs tables.