RNA-Sequencing: A tool to explore new frontiers in animal genetics $

Global gene expression profiling by RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) was introduced in 2004 with the advent of next generation sequencing technologies and has made a revolutionary impact on transcriptome analysis. When compared to the traditional microarray technologies, RNA-Seq has major advantages such as a higher dynamic range, a precise unbiased quantification of transcripts and a comprehensive coverage of all expressed sequences in a given tissue. Besides transcript quantification, RNA-Seq is utilized for comparison of transcriptomes, mapping the 5 0