Molecular insights into land snail neuropeptides through transcriptome and comparative gene analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Snails belong to the molluscan class Gastropoda, which inhabit land, freshwater and marine environments. Several land snail species, including Theba pisana, are crop pests of major concern, causing extensive damage to agriculture and horticulture. A deeper understanding of their molecular biology is necessary in order to develop methods to manipulate land snail populations.

Results

The present study used in silico gene data mining of T. pisana tissue transcriptomes to predict 24,920 central nervous system (CNS) proteins, 37,661 foot muscle proteins and 40,766 hepatopancreas proteins, which together have 5,236 unique protein functional domains. Neuropeptides, metabolic enzymes and epiphragmin genes dominated expression within the CNS, hepatopancreas and muscle, res

SUBMITTER: Adamson KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4408573 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature