Transcriptome data from hepatopancreas and gill tissues of Callinectes sapidus (blue crabs) exposed to surrogate crude oil in the laboratory and laboratory controls

In 2010 blue crabs in the northern Gulf of Mexico were exposed to crude oil and chemical dispersants from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. To characterize the blue crab transcriptome and identify genes that respond to oil exposure we sequenced transcriptomes from hepatopancreas and gill tissues of juvenile blue crabs exposed to a water-accommodated fraction of surrogate Macondo crude oil and compared those to transcriptomes from an unexposed control group. Illumina sequencing provided 42.5 million paired-end reads for the control group (3 individuals) and 44.9 million paired-end reads for the treatment group (4 individuals). These raw-reads are provided in the Bioproject 283615 deposited into NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=283615). This dataset also includes data funded under RFP II R2.x214.000:0002.