Comparative Time-Scale Gene Expression Analysis Highlights the Infection Processes of Two Amoebophrya Strains.

ABSTRACT: Understanding factors that generate, maintain, and constrain host-parasite associations is of major interest to biologists. Although little studied, many extremely virulent micro-eukaryotic parasites infecting microalgae have been reported in the marine plankton. This is the case for Amoebophrya, a diverse and highly widespread group of Syndiniales infecting and potentially controlling dinoflagellate populations. Here, we analyzed the time-scale gene expression of a complete infection cycle of two Amoebophrya strains infecting the same host (the dinoflagellate Scrippsiella acuminata), but diverging by their host range (one infecting a single host, the other infecting more than one species). Over two-thirds of genes showed two-fold differences in expression between at l

SUBMITTER: Farhat S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6176090 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature