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Transcription profiling of head, midgut, carcass and ovaries of adult Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

ABSTRACT: We conducted a genome wide survey of mosquito gene expression profiles in 4 different tissues of adult Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. The tissues included the head, the midgut, the carcass (corresponding to the remainder of the mosquito after decapitation and midgut removal) and ovaries. Ovaries were collected from adult female mosquitoes, which had been bloodfed 48h prior to dissection. To investigate mosquito expression in those tissues, we performed competitive two-dye hybridizations of experimental and standard reference RNA samples to MMC1 microarrays. MMC1 microarrays contain approximately 20,000 EST clones. Standard reference RNA was produced in vitro from the spotted ESTs and was utilized to provide consistent, non-zero reference values for almost all probes of the array. For the experiment, two biological replicates, corresponding to mosquito generations 1 and 3 (generation 2 was discarded due to probable labelling errors) and one technical (dye-swap) replicate was conducted.

ORGANISM(S): Anopheles gambiae

SUBMITTER: unknown MacCallum

PROVIDER: E-TABM-153 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Life cycle transcriptome of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae and comparison with the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster.

Koutsos Anastasios C AC Blass Claudia C Meister Stephan S Schmidt Sabine S MacCallum Robert M RM Soares Marcelo B MB Collins Frank H FH Benes Vladimir V Zdobnov Evgeny E Kafatos Fotis C FC Christophides George K GK

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070611 27

The African mosquito Anopheles gambiae is the major vector of human malaria. We report a genome-wide survey of mosquito gene expression profiles clustered temporally into developmental programs and spatially into adult tissue-specific patterns. Global expression analysis shows that genes that belong to related functional categories or that encode the same or functionally linked protein domains are associated with characteristic developmental programs or tissue patterns. Comparative analysis of o ...[more]

PMID: 17563388

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Transcription profiling of head, midgut, carcass and ovaries of adult Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

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