The mRNA extraction, cDNA library construction and sequencing were performed by the Beijing Center for Physical and Chemical Analysis (BCPCA) (Beijing, China). Total RNA was extracted from each sample using the TRlzol reagent and digested with DNase I. Oligo (dT) magnetic beads were used to enrich mRNA from the total RNA and then broken into short fragments by a fragmentation buffer. To build the cDNA libraries based on the four samples (Solexa/Illumina 2,500 platform: 101 bp short insert-paired end), we followed the methods of Neeraja et al. (2012 (link)) and Tang et al. (2011 (link)).
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