Table 1.

Summary of studies on penaeid shrimp using the RNA-seq approach.

Reference/species	NGS platform	Application	Annotation of genomic information
Baranski et al. (2014)/Penaeus monodon	Illumina	SNPs and microsatellite prospecting	136,223 contigs; 473,620 SNPs
Li et al. (2013)/Fenneropenaeus chinensis	Illumina	Immune response to WSSV	46,676 unigenes; 805 differentially expressed genes
Yu et al. (2014)/Litopenaeus vannamei	Illumina	SNPs prospecting	96,040 SNPs
Guo et al. (2013)/L. vannamei	Illumina	Stress; immune response; apoptosis	42,336 unigenes; 2,445 differentially expressed genes
Sookruksawong et al. (2013)/L. vannamei	Illumina	Immune response to TSV	61,937 contigs; 1,374 differentially expressed contigs
Zeng et al. (2013)/L. vannamei	454	Immune response to TSV; microsatellites prospecting	15,004 unigenes; 770 microsatellites; 1,311 differentially expressed genes
Xue et al. (2013)/L. vannamei	Illumina	Immune response to WSSV	52,073 unigenes; 1,179 differentially expressed genes
Li et al. (2012)/L. vannamei	Illumina	Genomic annotation	109,169 unigenes