Developmental Transcriptomic Analysis of the Cave-Dwelling Crustacean, Asellus aquaticus.

ABSTRACT: Cave animals are a fascinating group of species often demonstrating characteristics including reduced eyes and pigmentation, metabolic efficiency, and enhanced sensory systems. Asellus aquaticus, an isopod crustacean, is an emerging model for cave biology. Cave and surface forms of this species differ in many characteristics, including eye size, pigmentation, and antennal length. Existing resources for this species include a linkage map, mapped regions responsible for eye and pigmentation traits, sequenced adult transcriptomes, and comparative embryological descriptions of the surface and cave forms. Our ultimate goal is to identify genes and mutations responsible for the differences between the cave and surface forms. To advance this goal, we decided to use a transcriptomic approac

SUBMITTER: Gross JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7016750 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature