De novo assembly of a transcriptome for Calanus finmarchicus (Crustacea, Copepoda)--the dominant zooplankter of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Assessing the impact of global warming on the food web of the North Atlantic will require difficult-to-obtain physiological data on a key copepod crustacean, Calanus finmarchicus.The de novo transcriptome presented here represents a new resource for acquiring such data.It was produced from multiplexed gene libraries using RNA collected from six dev