Publications Department of Animal Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Collembase: a repository for springtail genomics and soil quality assessment: BMC Genomics 2007, 8:341

Supplementary Table 1: Primers used to test the normalization efficiency.

Supplementary Figure 1: Sequence length (bp) distribution of different contigs in Collembase.

Phylogenetic study

Amino acid translated ribosomal protein gene alignment available upon request: martijn.timmermans - at - falw.vu.nl

Other publications regarding EST data in Collembase

Nota B, Verweij RA, Molenaar D, Ylstra B, van Straalen NM, Roelofs D: Gene expression analysis reveals a gene set discriminatory to different metals in soil: Toxicological Sciences 2010, 115(1):34-40.

Nota B, van Straalen NM, Ylstra B, Roelofs D: Gene expression microarray analysis of heat stress in the soil invertebrate Folsomia candida: Insect Molecular Biology 2010, 19(3):315-322.

de Boer TE, Holmstrup M, van Straalen NM, Roelofs D: The effect of soil pH and temperature on Folsomia candida transcriptional regulation. Journal of Insect Physiology 2010, 56(4):350-355.

Liu YR, Zheng YM, Zhang LM, Luan YX, He JZ: Effects of mercury on reproduction, avoidance, and heat shock protein gene expression of the soil springtail Folsomia candida: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2010, 29(3):654-659.

Timmermans MJTN, Ellers J: Wolbachia endosymbiont is essential for egg hatching in a parthenogenetic arthropod: Evolutionary Ecology 2009, 23(6): 931-942.

Timmermans MJTN, Roelofs D, Nota B, Ylstra B, Holmstrup M: Sugar sweet springtails: on the transcriptional response of Folsomia candida (Collembola) to desiccation stress: Insect Molecular Biology 2009, 18(6): 737-746.

Roelofs D, Janssens TKS, Timmermans MJTN, Nota B, Marien J, Bochdanovits Z, Ylstra B, van Straalen NM: Adaptive differences in gene expression associated with heavy metal tolerance in the soil arthropod Orchesella cincta: Molecular Ecology 2009, 18(15): 3227-3239.

Nota B, Bosse M, Ylstra B, van Straalen NM, Roelofs D: Transcriptomics reveals extensive inducible biotransformation in the soil-dwelling invertebrate Folsomia candida exposed to phenanthrene: BMC Genomics 2009, 10:236.

de Boer M, de Boer T, Marien J, Timmermans M, Nota B, van Straalen N, Ellers J, Roelofs D: Reference genes for QRT-PCR tested under various stress conditions in Folsomia candida and Orchesella cincta (Insecta, Collembola): BMC Molecular Biology 2009, 10(1):54.

Bahrndorff S, Marien J, Loeschcke V, Ellers J: Dynamics of heat-induced thermal stress resistance and Hsp70 expression in the springtail Orchesella cincta: Functional Ecology 2009, 23(2): 233-239.

Nota B, Timmermans MJ, Franken O, Montagne-Wajer K, Marien J, de Boer ME, de Boer T, Ylstra B, van Straalen NM, Roelofs D: Gene expression analysis of collembola in cadmium containing soil: Environmental Science and Technology 2008, 42(21):8152-7.

Ellers J, Mariën J, Driessen G, van Straalen NM: Temperature-induced gene expression associated with different thermal reaction norms for growth rate: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 2008, 310B: 137-147.

van Straalen NM, Timmermans MJTN, Roelofs D, Berg MP: Apterygota in the spotlights of ecology, evolution and genomics. European Journal of Soil Biology 2008, 44 (5-6):452-457.

Nakamori T, Fujimori A, Kinoshita K, Ban-Nai T, Kubota Y, Yoshida S: Application of HiCEP to screening of radiation stress-responsive genes in the soil microarthropod Folsomia candida (Collembola): Environmental Science and Technology 2008, 42(18): 6997 - 7002.

Timmermans MJTN, Roelofs D, Marien J, van Straalen NM: Revealing pancrustacean relationships: Phylogenetic analysis of ribosomal protein genes places Collembola (springtails) in a monophyletic Hexapoda and reinforces the discrepancy between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:83.

Clark MS, Thorne MAS, Purac J, Grubor-Lajsic G, Kube M, Reinhardt R, Worland MR: Surviving extreme polar winters by desiccation: clues from Arctic springtail (Onychiurus arcticus) EST libraries: BMC Genomics 2007, 8:475

Roelofs D, Marien J, van Straalen NM: Differential gene expression profiles associated with heavy metal tolerance in the soil insect Orchesella cincta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2007, 37(4):287-295.