Fucus vesiculosus Raw sequence reads

We studied the process of hyposalinity acclimation by quantifying differences in gene expression between Baltic F. vesiculosus in current ambient salinity and those in future hyposaline conditions, which were predicted by a recent climate model (Meier and Eilola, 2011). In order to determine the functions of differentially expressed genes given that no reference transcriptome was previously available for the species, we assembled de novo and annotated a full transcriptome library for F. vesiculosus. Further, we assessed possible among-population variation in gene expression by including algal specimens from two geographic localities.