Deep sequencing-based transcriptome analysis of Plutella xylostella larvae parasitized by Diadegma semiclausum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parasitoid insects manipulate their hosts' physiology by injecting various factors into their host upon parasitization. Transcriptomic approaches provide a powerful approach to study insect host-parasitoid interactions at the molecular level. In order to investigate the effects of parasitization by an ichneumonid wasp (Diadegma semiclausum) on the host (Plutella xylostella), the larval transcriptome profile was analyzed using a short-read deep sequencing method (Illumina). Symbiotic polydnaviruses (PDVs) associated with ichneumonid parasitoids, known as ichnoviruses, play significant roles in host immune suppression and developmental regulation. In the current study, D. semiclausum ichnovirus (DsIV) genes expressed in P. xylostella were identified and their sequences com

SUBMITTER: Etebari K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3184118 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature