Transcriptional profiling of Blochmannia floridanus during different host stages

ABSTRACT: The transcriptome of Blochmannia floridanus, the endosymbiont of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus, is presented during eight developmental stages of its holometabolous host by use of a whole genome DNA-macroarray. The detected transcription patterns indicate the presence of local transcription units as well as global regulatory mechanisms. Yet, the overall regulation scale is very modest, rarely exceeding a factor of three which is in line with the low number of transcriptional regulators present in this reduced genome. A large number of genes show differential expression in different life stages and a distinct expression pattern of genes possibly involved in symbiotic function as compared to housekeeping genes is apparent. However, these transcriptional changes are small as compare

ORGANISM(S): Candidatus Blochmannia floridanus

SUBMITTER: Sascha Stoll 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-12148 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress