Transcriptome analyses of Anguillicola crassus from native and novel hosts.

ABSTRACT: Anguillicola crassus is a swim bladder nematode of eels. The parasite is native to the Asian eel Anguilla japonica, but was introduced to Europe and the European eel Anguilla anguilla in the early 1980s. A Taiwanese source has been proposed for this introduction. In the new host in the recipient area, the parasite appears to be more pathogenic. As a reason for these differences, genetically fixed differences in infectivity and development between Taiwanese and European A.crassus have been described and disentangled from plasticity induced by different host environments. To explore whether transcriptional regulation is involved in these lifecycle differences, we have analysed a "common garden", cross infection experiment, using deep-sequencing transcriptomics. Surprisingly, in the face of c

SUBMITTER: Heitlinger E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4250067 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature