Project description:Wood-degrading fungi vary in their strategies for deconstructing wood, and their competitive successes shape the rate and fate of carbon released from wood, Earth’s largest pool of aboveground terrestrial carbon. In this study, one-on-one interspecific interactions between two model brown rot (carbohydrate-selective) fungi, Gloeophyllum trabeum and Rhodonia (Postia) placenta, were studied on wood wafers where a clearly resolved interaction zone (IZ) could be generated, reproducibly. Comparative RNAseq and proteomics between the IZ and non-interacting hyphae of each species identified combative strategies for each fungus. Glycoside hydrolases were a relatively smaller portion of the interaction secretome compared to non-interacting hyphae. The interaction zone showed higher pectinase specific activity than all other sampling locations, and higher laminarinase specific activity (branched β‐glucan proxy) was seen in the IZ secretome relative to equivalent hyphae in single‐species cultures. Our efforts also identified two distinct competitive strategies in these two fungi with a shared nutritional mode (brown rot) but polyphyletic ancestral lineages. Gloeophyllum trabeum (Gloeophyllum clade) employed secondary metabolite (SM) synthesis in response to a competitor, as shown by the upregulation of several SM-synthesizing genes in the interaction. R. placenta (Antrodia clade) instead upregulated a larger variety of uncharacterized oxidoreductases in interacting hyphae, suggesting that an oxidative burst may be a response to competitors in this fungus. Both species produced several hypothetical proteins exclusively in the interaction zone, leaving abundant unknowns on the battlefield. This work supports the existence of multiple interaction strategies among brown rot fungi and highlights the functional diversity among wood decay fungi.

2020-05-22 | GSE151023 | GEO

Streptococcus pneumoniae global lineages

Project description:Streptococcus pneumoniae global lineages

| PRJEB2255 | ENA

Formica selysi

Project description:Hybrid zone between Formica selysi and Formica cinerea Raw sequence reads

| PRJNA336636 | ENA

Aberrant gene expression in Drosophila hybrids supporting faster-male evolution

Project description:To explore the aberrant expression patterns between hybrid sexes, we compare the global gene expression of 7-day-old whole body adults of hybrids by sex in recently diverged Drosophia pseudoobscura group 7-day-old virgin hybrid flies were assayed by sex. Reciprocal F1 hybrids were produced for D. pseudoobscura/D. persimilis and D. pseudoobscura/D. p. bogotana crosses by mass mating virgin flies. At least three isofemale inbred lines were used for each species (D. pseudoobscura; D. persimilis; D. pseudoobscura bogotana).Two separate labeling reactions per sample were pooled and hybridized to the Agilent single color (Cyanine 3-CTP dye) arrays. Three different replicates were hybridized for each hybrid and sex. Pure species data (collected the same time and deposited as GSE17192 ) and hybrid data were analyzed together to determine the misexpression differences between hybrid males and females.

2011-07-01 | E-GEOD-17452 | biostudies-arrayexpress