ABSTRACT: New RNA-seq data was generated to create a large-scale Seminavis robusta gene expression atlas profiling a wide-range of experimental conditions including life cycle stages and abiotic stressors. These stresses encompass among others changes in temperature and salt concentration, silica depletion, high light exposure, H202 and decadienal treatment.
Project description:Exoproteomes generated from Synechococcus sp. WH7803 and Prochlorococcus sp. MIT9313 cultures grown under different nutrient, light and temperature conditions. The aim was to see how the production of the pili were affected. Exoproteomes of marine Prochlorococcus under different growth regimes analysed by LC-MS/MS
Project description:Exoproteomes generated from Synechococcus sp. WH7803 and Prochlorococcus sp. MIT9313 cultures grown under different nutrient, light and temperature conditions. The aim was to see how the production of the pili were affected. Exoproteomes of marine Synechococcus under different nutrient limitations analysed by LC-MS/MS
Project description:Exoproteomes generated from Synechococcus sp. WH7803 and Prochlorococcus sp. MIT9313 cultures grown under different nutrient, light and temperature conditions. The aim was to see how the production of the pili were affected. Exoproteomes of marine Synechococcus under different nutrient regimes analysed by LC-MS/MS
Project description:Exoproteomes generated from Synechococcus sp. WH7803 and Prochlorococcus sp. MIT9313 cultures grown under different nutrient, light and temperature conditions. The aim was to see how the production of the pili were affected. Exoproteomes of marine Synechococcus under different light regimes analysed by LC-MS/MS
Project description:Aphid adaptation to harsh winter conditions is illustrated by an alternation of their reproductive mode. Aphids detect photoperiod shortening by sensing the length of the night and switch from viviparous parthenogenesis in spring and summer, to oviparous sexual reproduction in autumn. The photoperiodic signal is transduced from the head to the reproductive tract to change the fate of the future oocytes from mitotic diploid embryogenesis to haploid formation of gametes. Because of viviparous parthenogenesis, the whole process takes place in three consecutive generations. To understand the molecular basis of the switch in the reproductive mode, a transcriptomic approach was used to detect significantly regulated transcripts in the heads of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. The transcriptomic profiles of the heads of the first generation were slightly affected by photoperiod shortening. This suggests that trans-generation signaling does not occur between the grand-mothers and the viviparous embryos they contain. By analogy, many of the genes regulated in the heads of the second generation are implicated in visual functions, photoreception and cuticle structure. The modification of the cuticle could decrease the storage of N-β-alanyldopamine and provoke an increase in free dopamine concentration. Based in results in Drosophila, modification of the insulin pathway could cause a decrease of juvenile hormones in short-day reared aphids. Biological material for microarray experiments was prepared under two dayly photoperiodic regimes both at constant temperature of 18°C: i) âShort Nightâ (SN) at 16h of light and ii) âLong Nightâ (LN) at 12h of light to induce the production of sexual morphs. To initiate the experiment, two groups of 105 L3 larvae were placed either under SN or LN condition. This corresponds to generation G0. At the middle of the photophase, 25 individual were frozen when they had reached both the L4 and the wingless adult (WA) stages, in the two photoperiod conditions. The 55 remaining WA individuals (still divided in two groups) were left on 55 plants to lay their offspring: one larva of the 1st stage (L1) was kept per WA. This larva was selected among the 20 first born larvae. This is the generation G1. At the middle of the photophase, 25 individual were frozen when they had reached both the L2 and the L4 stages, in the two photoperiodic conditions. Thus, 25 individuals from 4 different stages (L4-G0, WA-G0, L2-G1 and L4-G1) were collected in the two photoperiod conditions with 3 biological replicates, forming the 24 samples used for microarray experiments. RNAs from heads of aphids from the two photoperiodic conditions were hybridized one against the other for each stage with a dye-swap.The experimental design is thus 24 arrays which corresponds to the described samples of that series.
Project description:We have done next generation sequencing of optically thin, exponentialy growing Phaeodactylum tricornutum cultures grown with and without nitrogen source to improve our undestanding of the pathways regulation under conditions that promote lipid accumulation (N-starvation). 3 biologically independent exponentially growing culture of Phaeodactylum tricornutum were pelleted and washed several times with N-free media. Each culture was devided to 2 replicates with initial cell concentration of 2X105 cells/mL, one with NaNO3 as nitrogen source and the other without any nitrogen source. The cuture were bubbled foro 48 hours and sampled for transcriptome together with other physiological parameters and lipid analysis.
Project description:We have done next generation sequencing of optically thin, exponentialy growing WT Phaeodactylum tricornutum and our ~50% nitrate reductase knock-down cultures. Culture were grown with and without nitrogen source to improve our undestanding of the pathways regulation under conditions that promote lipid accumulation (N-starvation). 3 biologically independent exponentially growing culture of the WT and the NR21 knock-down were pelleted and washed several times with N-free media. Each culture was devided to 2 replicates with initial cell concentration of 2.5X105 cells/mL, one with NaNO3 as nitrogen source and the other without any nitrogen source. The cuture were bubbled for 48 hours and sampled for transcriptome together with other physiological parameters and lipid analysis after reachign exponential growth.
Project description:The aim of this experiment is to identify genes in the bacteriophage S-PM2d that are deferentially expressed in response to light intensity during infection. We were interested in light since the host (Synechococcus) obtains all energy and carbon for growth from light, through photosynthesis. The amount of light entering the cell is therefore approximately proportional to the amount of energy that can be generated. Therefore we wanted to increase the amount of energy available for an infecting virus (S-PM2) and observe the physiological and transcriptional response of the virus. This is particularly interesting because the virus itself encodes genes involved in harvesting this light into energy.