Characterization of the pigmented shell-forming proteome of the common grove snail Cepaea nemoralis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With a diversity of pigmented shell morphotypes governed by Mendelian patterns of inheritance, the common grove snail, Cepaea nemoralis, has served as a model for evolutionary biologists and population geneticists for decades. Surprisingly, the molecular mechanisms by which C. nemoralis generates this pigmented shelled diversity, and the degree of evolutionary conservation present between molluscan shell-forming proteomes, remain unknown.

Results

Here, using next generation sequencing and high throughput proteomics, we identify and characterize the major proteinaceous components of the C. nemoralis shell, the first shell-proteome for a pulmonate mollusc. The recent availability of several marine molluscan shell-proteomes, and the dataset we report here, allow us t

SUBMITTER: Mann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4023409 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature