Microarray-based transcriptomic analysis of differences between long-term gregarious and solitarious desert locusts

ABSTRACT: Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) show an extreme form of phenotypic plasticity and can transform between a cryptic solitarious phase and a swarming gregarious phase. The two phases differ extensively in behavior, morphology and physiology but very little is known about the molecular basis of these differences. We used our recently generated Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) database derived from S. gregaria central nervous system (CNS) to design oligonucleotide microarrays and compare the expression of thousands of genes in the CNS of long-term gregarious and solitarious adult desert locusts. This identified 214 differentially expressed genes, of which 40% have been annotated to date. These include genes encoding proteins that are associated with CNS development and modeling, sensory perc

ORGANISM(S): Schistocerca gregaria

SUBMITTER: Jozef Vanden Broeck 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-31237 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress