Arion ater Transcriptome or Gene expression

The European common slug (Arion ater) has been used in ecotoxicology studies as soil pollution sentinel organisms. The general objective of this project was to increase the knowledge of microevolutionary processes in soil fauna exposed to chronic pollution.More specifically, to advance in the knowledge of the genetic modifications and the gene expression strategies that allow slugs to cope against chronic polluted soils. The transcriptome of the terrestrial gastropod slug was de novo assembled and functionally annotated. Multiple tissues were pooled and used as sequencing template. As result, it has been partially covered the existing lack of gene sequence information about common slug. However, there is still no genomic information.