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Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptomes

ABSTRACT: A major effort is underway to study the natural variation within the model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana. Much of this effort is focused on genome resequencing, however the translation of genotype to phenotype will be largely effected through variations within the transcriptomes at the sequence and expression levels. To examine the cross-talk between natural variation in genomes and transcriptomes, we have examined the transcriptomes of three divergent A. thaliana accessions using tiling arrays. Combined with genome resequencing efforts, we were able to adjust the tiling array datasets to account for polymorphisms between the accessions and therefore gain a more accurate comparison of the transcriptomes. The corrected results for the transcriptomes allowed us to correlate higher gene polymorphism with greater variation in transcript level among the accessions. Our results demonstrate the utility of combining genomic data with tiling arrays to assay non-reference accession transcriptomes. Wild type accessions Col-0 were grown on soil at 16M-BM-0C with a 16 hour light period. Inflorescence tissue up to floral stage 14 was used for RNA extraction. Samples were collected 7-8 hours into the light period, with tissue from five plants pooled for each sample. RNA samples were converted into double stranded and hybridized to whole genome tiling arrays (Affymetrix Arabidopis Tiling1.0RM-BM-.). Three biological replicates were performed for each accession.

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: Felix Ott

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-38109 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Transposable elements and small RNAs contribute to gene expression divergence between Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata.

Hollister Jesse D JD Smith Lisa M LM Guo Ya-Long YL Ott Felix F Weigel Detlef D Gaut Brandon S BS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110120 6

Transposable elements (TEs) are often the primary determinant of genome size differences among eukaryotes. In plants, the proliferation of TEs is countered through epigenetic silencing mechanisms that prevent mobility. Recent studies using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana have revealed that methylated TE insertions are often associated with reduced expression of nearby genes, and these insertions may be subject to purifying selection due to this effect. Less is known about the genome-wide pa ...[more]

PMID: 21252301

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Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptomes

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Transposable elements and small RNAs contribute to gene expression divergence between Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata.

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