Transcriptome Analysis of the Basal Chordate Botryllus schlosseri Reveals a Set of Genes Associated with Fertility

ABSTRACT: Background: Gonad differentiation is an essential function for all sexually reproducing species, and many aspects of these developmental processes are highly conserved among the metazoa. The colonial ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri is a chordate model organism which offers two unique traits that can be utilized to characterize the genes underlying germline development: a colonial life history and variable fertility. These properties allow individual genotypes to be isolated at different stages of fertility and gene expression can be characterized comprehensively. Results: Here we characterized the transcriptome of both fertile and infertile colonies throughout blastogenesis (asexual development) using differential expression analysis. We identified genes (as few as 7 and as many as 647) re

ORGANISM(S): Botryllus schlosseri

SUBMITTER: Delany Rodriguez 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-62112 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress