Construction of cDNA libraries: focus on protists and fungi

Methods Mol Biol. 2009:533:33-47. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-136-3_3.

Abstract

Sequencing of cDNA libraries is an efficient and inexpensive approach to analyze the protein-coding portion of a genome. It is frequently used for surveying the genomes of poorly studied eukaryotes, and is particularly useful for species that are not easily amenable to genome sequencing, because they are nonaxenic and/or difficult to cultivate. In this chapter, we describe protocols that have been applied successfully to construct and normalize a variety of cDNA libraries from many different species of free-living protists and fungi, and that require only small quantities of cell material.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • DNA, Complementary / metabolism*
  • Expressed Sequence Tags
  • Fungi / genetics*
  • Gene Library*
  • Genetic Techniques
  • Genomics
  • RNA / metabolism
  • RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / genetics

Substances

  • DNA, Complementary
  • RNA
  • RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase