PMID- 16625419 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20071025 LR - 20211020 IS - 1436-2228 (Print) IS - 1436-2228 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 2 DP - 2006 Mar-Apr TI - Development of expressed sequence tags from the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians irradians. PG - 161-9 AB - The bay scallop, Argopecten irradians irradians, introduced from North America, has become one of the most important aquaculture species in China. Inan effort to identify scallop genes involved in host defense, a high-quality cDNA library was constructed from whole body tissues of the bay scallop. A total of 5828 successful sequencing reactions yielded 4995 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) longer than 100 bp. Cluster and assembly analyses of the ESTs identified 637 contigs (consisting of 2853 sequences) and 2142 singletons, totaling 2779 unique sequences. Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) analysis showed that the majority (73%) of the unique sequences had no significant homology (E-value