Caste-specific expression patterns of olfactory related genes in the leaf-cutting ant, Atta vollenweideri

ABSTRACT: To allow estimation of the complexity and gene expression differences of the antennal transcriptome between sexes as well as between castes, microarrays were designed based on an assembly of A. vollenweideri antennal sequence data from all sexes and castes. The microarrays were hybridized with samples generated from the respecitve antennal tissues, with four independent sample pools per sex and caste. Custom 2x105 k Agilent microarrays (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA) were designed based on the antennal transcriptome data of A.vollenweideri. For all contigs with an identified ORF by automatic annotation, two 60mer oligo probes were designed, with two additional 60mer oligo probes for opposite reading direction for those with unknown ORF, thus resulting in 4 oligo probes per contig. Ad

ORGANISM(S): Atta vollenweideri

SUBMITTER: Heiko Vogel 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-48824 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress