Molecular signatures discriminating the male and the female sexual pathways in the pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera.

ABSTRACT: The genomics of economically important marine bivalves is studied to provide better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying their different reproductive strategies. The recently available gonad transcriptome of the black-lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera is a novel and powerful resource to study these mechanisms in marine mollusks displaying hermaphroditic features. In this study, RNAseq quantification data of the P. margaritifera gonad transcriptome were analyzed to identify candidate genes in histologically-characterized gonad samples to provide molecular signatures of the female and male sexual pathway in this pearl oyster. Based on the RNAseq data set, stringent expression analysis identified 1,937 contigs that were differentially expressed between the gonad histolog

SUBMITTER: Teaniniuraitemoana V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4376701 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature