Next Generation Sequencing and Quantitative Analysis of Mus musculus and Arvicanthis niloticus Olfactory Epithelium Transcriptomes

To quantify gene expression differences in olfactory epithelium between the mouse (Mus musculus) and the Nile rat (Arvicanthis niloticus), paired-end RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) was used to profile olfactory epithelium transcriptomes of six Nile rats and six mice (C57BL/6J) (one male and one female at the age of 8, 12, and 16 weeks for each species). Olfactory epithelium mRNA profiles of 8-week, 12-week, 16-week old male and female mice (Mus musculus) (C57BL/67Narl) and Nile rats (Arvicanthis niloticus)