Sexual dimorphism and sex-biased gene expression in an egg parasitoid species, Anastatus disparis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Differences in the expression of genes present in both sexes are assumed to contribute to sex differences including behavioural, physiological and morphological dimorphisms. For enriching our knowledge of gender differences in an important egg parasitoid wasp, Anastatus disparis (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae), sex-biased differences in gene expression were investigated using Illumina-based transcriptomic analysis.

Results

A total of 15,812 resulting unigenes were annotated, and a large set of genes accounting for 50.09% of the total showed sex-biased expression and included 630 sex-specific genes. Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analyses showed that the functional categories associated with sex-biased genes were mainly related to reproduction. In addition, the transcript

SUBMITTER: Liu PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368684 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature