IMPACT OF FUNGAL SECONDARY METABOLITES ON TRANSCRIPT REGULATION OF FOLSOMIA CANDIDA

ABSTRACT: Genetic and molecular evidence to support the hypothesis that fungal secondary metabolites play a significant role in protecting the fungi against fungivory is scarce. We investigated the impact of fungal secondary metabolites on transcript regulation of stress related expressed sequence tags (ESTs) of the Collembola Folsomia candida feeding on mixed vs. single diets. Aspergillus nidulans wildtype (WT; Ascomycota) able to produce secondary metabolites including sterigmatocystin (ST) and a knockout mutant with reduced secondary metabolism (A. nidulans ?LaeA) were combined with the high quality fungus Cladosporium cladosporioides as mixed diets or offered as single diets. We hypothesized that (i) A. nidulans WT triggers more genes associated with stress responses compared to the A. nidulans

ORGANISM(S): Folsomia candida

SUBMITTER: Thierry Janssens 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19930 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress