Sex-biased gene expression in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The fucoid brown algae (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae) are increasingly the focus of ecological genetics, biodiversity, biogeography and speciation research. The molecular genetics underlying mating system variation, where repeated dioecious - hermaphrodite switches during evolution are recognized, and the molecular evolution of sex-related genes are key questions currently hampered by a lack of genomic information. We therefore undertook a comparative analysis of male and female reproductive tissue transcriptomes against a vegetative background during natural reproductive cycles in Fucus vesiculosus.

Results

Over 300 k reads were assembled and annotated against public protein databases including a brown alga. Compared with the vegetative tissue, photosynthetic a

SUBMITTER: Martins MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3652789 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature