Evolutionary conservation of phototransduction and clock gene expression in the cave beetle Ptomaphagus hirtus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae)

ABSTRACT: Caves are populated with a diverse fauna of highly adapted species that tend to exhibit a consistent suite of both regressive and constructive trait modifications. Because molecular studies of cave adaptation have largely concentrated on vertebrate models, our ability to recognize universalities in the genetic trajectories underlying cave adaptation remains limited. We have initiated efforts to elucidate the molecular evolution of the flightless small carrion beetle Ptomaphagus hirtus (Ptomaphagus hirtus), which represents one of the highly endemic signature inhabitants of the Mammoth Cave system of Kentucky. Ptomaphagus hirtus has been considered blind despite the presence of lateral eye rudiments. However, analysis of the Ptomaphagus hirtus adult head transcriptome by deep RNA sequencing

ORGANISM(S): Ptomaphagus hirtus

SUBMITTER: Bryce Daines 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-28039 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress