Project description:RNA sequencing of single cells from the midline posterior tip of the tail and posterior blastema in planarian Schmidtea mediterranea identified new posterior-pole enriched genes
Project description:Identification of differentially expressed genes in intestinal phagocytes, compared to non-intestinal cells in Schmidtea mediterranea.
Project description:Identification of differentially expressed genes in intestinal phagocytes, compared to non-intestinal cells in Schmidtea mediterranea. Total RNA was isolated from either intestinal phagocytes or non-intestinal cells (control). Four independent biological replicates were conducted with two dye swaps. Labeled targets were hybridized to two oligonucleotide arrays on which 11,521 planarian transcripts were represented.
Project description:The transcriptome of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is not well characterized. We have used RNA-Seq to characterize the transcriptome in both sexual and asexual strains of S. mediterranea from both untreated and irradiated animals. Moreover, we have performed RNA-Seq on RNA purified from FACS sorted neoblasts and differentiated cells. Together these studies expand our understanding of the planarian transcriptome and have identified strain-specific, neoblast-specific, and conserved transcripts.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in nanos(RNAi) Schmidtea mediterranea, compared to control animals. nanos(RNAi) animals are devoid of germ cells The samples analyzed in this study are further described in Wang, Y., Stary, JM., Wilhelm, JE. and Newmark, PA. 2010. A eight chip study using total RNA recovered from asexual nanos(RNAi), asexual control, juvenile sexual nanos(RNAi), and juvenile sexual control animals. Each chip measures the expression level of 16,797 ESTs from S. mediterranea with 10 60-mer probe pairs (PM/MM) per gene, with two-fold technical redundancy.
