“…On the other hand, driven by declining costs, RNA-seq is becoming increasingly accessible to labs with modest resources; and as a result, it is being employed on an ever-expanding catalog of non-model organisms, pervading the fields of agriculture, aquaculture, ecology, and environment. A very short list of recent studies include: environmental stress response in sea-trout [ 3 ], coral [ 4 ], ryegrass [ 5 ], pigeonpea [ 6 ], tiger barb [ 7 ]; immune response to parasites and pathogens in guppy [ 8 ], eel [ 9 ], silkworm [ 10 ], peanut [ 11 ], sunflower [ 12 ]; mechanisms of phenotypic divergence in hares [ 13 ], bats [ 14 ], grass carps [ 15 ]; effect of diet in the growth and development in shrimp [ 16 ], yellow perch [ 17 ], mandarin fish [ 18 ], grenadier anchovy [ 19 ], catfish [ 20 ], tilapia [ 21 ], bass [ 22 ]. It is only likely that RNA-seq will continue to rapidly proliferate while high-quality reference databases grow at a slow pace.…”