The fat body transcriptomes of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, pre- and post- blood meal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The fat body is the main organ of intermediary metabolism in insects and the principal source of hemolymph proteins. As part of our ongoing efforts to understand mosquito fat body physiology and to identify novel targets for insect control, we have conducted a transcriptome analysis of the fat body of Aedes aegypti before and in response to blood feeding.

Results

We created two fat body non-normalized EST libraries, one from mosquito fat bodies non-blood fed (NBF) and another from mosquitoes 24 hrs post-blood meal (PBM). 454 pyrosequencing of the non-normalized libraries resulted in 204,578 useable reads from the NBF sample and 323,474 useable reads from the PBM sample. Alignment of reads to the existing reference Ae. aegypti transcript libraries for analysis of d

SUBMITTER: Price DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3144915 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature