Gene expression profiling across ontogenetic stages in wood white (Leptidea sinapis) reveals pathways linked to butterfly diapause regulation.

ABSTRACT: In temperate latitudes, many insects enter diapause (dormancy) during the cold season, a period during which developmental processes come to a standstill. The wood white (Leptidea sinapis) is a butterfly species distributed across western Eurasia that shows photoperiod-induced diapause with variation in critical day-length across populations at different latitudes. We assembled transcriptomes and estimated gene expression levels at different developmental stages in experimentally induced directly developing and diapausing cohorts of a single Swedish population of L. sinapis to investigate the regulatory mechanisms underpinning diapause initiation. Different day lengths resulted in expression changes of developmental genes and affected the rate of accumulation of signal molecules, suggestin

INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 2500

ORGANISM(S): Leptidea sinapis

SUBMITTER: Talla Venkat 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-6454 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress