Project description:Complete transcriptome assembly and annotation of a critically important amphipod species in freshwater ecotoxicological risk assessment: Gammarus fossarum
Project description:We aimed to specifically identify the major egg yolk proteins (i.e. vitellogenin) in the amphipod Gammarus fossarum, a sentinel species in freshwater risk assessment. Vitellogenin production in female is vital for the embryonic development and its production in male organism is commonly employed as a biomarker of exposition to xenoestrogens in fish. We performed a shotgun proteomics analysis on embryos and ovaries at different stages of their development. The proteome dynamics over the cycle was analyzed to correlate on the first hand proteins which are accumulating along vitellogenesis and on the other hand, proteins with decrease amounts long embryogenesis. This information led to the proposal of putative novel VTG candidates. Our data provides the first large scale molecular description of a crustacean reproductive cycle, while our temporal analysis evidenced seven candidates proteins as “true vitellogenin” in G. fossarum.
Project description:While numerous examples of male reproductive disorders have been reported in vertebrates, invertebrate’s organisms have been considerably less studied, despite their ecological importance. The aim of this study is to investigate male infertility in the amphipod Gammarus fossarum, a sentinel species in freshwater risk assessment. Thus in laboratory, we exposed male gammarids to different concentrations of three different xenobiotics: cadmium, and two potent arthropods endocrine-disruptor chemicals, methoxyfenozide and pyriproxyfen. Afterward, we investigated alterations of reproductive health by sperm quality markers and proteomes dynamics on the male reproductive tissue by nanoLC-MS/MS for evidencing proteins modulated by toxic exposure.