Transcriptome Analysis of Durusdinium Associated with the Transition from Free-Living to Symbiotic.

ABSTRACT: To detect the change during coral-dinoflagellate endosymbiosis establishment, we compared transcriptome data derived from free-living and symbiotic Durusdinium, a coral symbiont genus. We detected differentially expressed genes (DEGs) using two statistical methods (edgeR using raw read data and the Student's t-test using bootstrap resampling read data) and detected 1214 DEGs between the symbiotic and free-living states, which we subjected to gene ontology (GO) analysis. Based on the representative GO terms and 50 DEGs with low false discovery rates, changes in Durusdinium during endosymbiosis were predicted. The expression of genes related to heat-shock proteins and microtubule-related proteins tended to decrease, and those of photosynthesis genes tended to increase. I

SUBMITTER: Yuyama I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8399598 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature