Data from: "De novo transcriptome assembly of the mountain fly Drosophila nigrosparsa using short RNA-seq reads" in Genomic Resources Notes Accepted 1 August 2014-30 September 2014

Drosophila (Drosophila) nigrosparsa is a habitat specialist restricted to
the European montane/alpine zone (Bächli 2008). Mountain biodiversity is
considered highly vulnerable to ongoing climate warming (IPCC 2013), and
organisms at high altitudes have only limited possibility to shift to
cooler habitats at elevations above (Pertoldi & Bach 2007). For
such species, rapid evolution may offer a solution for long-term survival.
We are establishing D. nigrosparsa as a model system to test the extent
and tempo of adaptive evolution under thermal stress in the laboratory. In
this study, we used Illumina high-throughput sequencing to assemble the
species’ transcriptome using the pooled mRNA from 22 developmental and
physiological stages.