Publications Department of Animal Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

1) 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.

2) Phylogenetic study

Amino acid translated ribosomal protein gene alignment will be made available after acceptance of publication

Other publications regarding EST data in Collembase

1) Surviving extreme polar winters by desiccation: clues from Arctic springtail (Onychiurus arcticus) EST libraries: BMC Genomics 2007, 8:475

2) 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.

3) 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.