Supporting data for “De novo assembly of the liver transcriptome of the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris”

The European starling, Sturnus vulgaris, is a prolific and worldwide invasive species that also has served as an important model for avian ecological and invasion research. Although the genome sequence recently has become available, no transcriptome data have been published for this species. Here, we have sequenced and assembled S. vulgaris liver transcriptome. A de novo transcriptome assembly constructed 18,678 protein-coding genes of high confidence that yield 23,945 non-redundant transcripts, of which we functionally annotated 82%. The transcriptome is similar to other passerine transcriptomes in terms of size and completeness. Further, our transcriptome assembly covers 87% of the predicted transcriptome of the draft genome currently available on NCBI. The data are publicly available on NCBI and DRO as a resource to other researchers.

欧洲椋鸟（Sturnus vulgaris）是一种繁殖力旺盛、全球分布的入侵物种，同时也是鸟类生态学与生物入侵研究的重要模式生物。尽管该物种的基因组序列已于近期公开，但目前尚无针对该物种的转录组数据相关研究发表。本研究对欧洲椋鸟的肝脏转录组进行了测序与组装。本次从头转录组组装（de novo transcriptome assembly）获得了18678个高置信度蛋白质编码基因，共对应23945条非冗余转录本，其中82%的转录本完成了功能注释。该转录组在规模与完整性方面，与其他雀形目鸟类的转录组相近。此外，本研究组装得到的转录组，覆盖了NCBI当前公开的该物种草图基因组预测转录组的87%。本研究生成的相关数据已在NCBI与DRO平台公开，可供其他科研人员使用。