De novo transcriptome analysis profiles gene expression underlying seasonal polyphenism in butterfly wing patterns

ABSTRACT: In the eastern United States the buckeye butterfly, Junonia coenia, shows a seasonal wing color polyphenism where adults emerging in the spring are pale brown, while those emerging in the autumn are dark red. This variation can be artificially induced in laboratory colonies, thus making J. coenia a useful model system to examine the developmental basis of phenotypic plasticity. We used RNA-seq to generate the first set of assembled transcripts for this species while simultaneously quantifying relative gene expression associated with development of alternative seasonal color morphs. The assembled consolidated wing transcriptome was 77.55 Mb. 16,251 contigs of over 1000bp in length were assembled, of which 3,145 were differentially expressed between stages and/or color morphs. Depending on t

ORGANISM(S): Junonia coenia

SUBMITTER: Ali Mortazavi 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-54819 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress