-Leu et al. reported the EST analysis of normal and WSSVinfected cDNA libraries from P. monodon postlarvae.
-A total of 6964 and 7686 EST clones from normal and viral-infected libraries were sequenced, assembled and clustered into 9622 unique sequences composed of 1364 contigs and 8258 singletons.
-After homology searches, 45% (3022) of the ESTs from the normal library matched to the deposited genes in the GenBank database and 43% (2870) matched to protein sequences in the UniProt database.
-In the viral-infected library, the matched ESTs revealed 46% (3338 ESTs) and 44% (3202 ESTs) homologs with the genes deposited in both databases.
-In F. chinensis, the large-scale collection of ESTs was generated from a cephalothorax cDNA library.
-A total of 10,446 ESTs were randomly sequenced and, after assembling and clustering, contained 1399 contigs and 1721 singletons, yielding 3120 unique sequences.
-Of these unique sequences, 1373 (44%) were matched to those in GenBank, and 81 were likely to be immunerelated
genes.