Geoff Waldbieser

TL;DR: A general review of the current status, challenges and future research needs of aquaculture genomics, genetics, and breeding is provided, with a focus on major Aquaculture species in the United States: catfish, rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon, tilapia, striped bass, oysters, and shrimp.

TL;DR: The large set of transcripts assembled in this study is the most comprehensive set of genome resources ever developed from catfish, which will provide the much needed resources for functional genome research inCatfish, serving as a reference transcriptome for genome annotation, analysis of gene duplication, gene family structures, and digital gene expression analysis.

TL;DR: Channel catfish gene resembling interleukin-8 like gene was up-regulated 3-5-fold in channel catfish and blue catfish after infection with pathogenic bacteria Edwardsiella ictaluri and RT-PCR indicated that both spliced forms were expressed.

TL;DR: This project generated a large EST resource for catfish that captured the majority of the catfish transcriptome and should be valuable for identification of microsatellites, genome annotation, large-scale expression analysis, and comparative genome analysis.

TL;DR: Two CD4-like (CD4L) molecules have been identified in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, and while both molecules appear to be T cell specific, their functional significance in catfish is unknown.