Project description:The common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum is a chelicerate model organism for studying developmental mechanisms and their evolution in arthropods. In contrast to the well-studied model insect, Drosophila melanogaster, embryos of the spider undergo patterning in a cellular environment from early stages (at least after the number of the nuclei increase to 16). Use of spider embryos provide new opportunities to understand the evolution of developmental mechanisms underlying arthropod body plans. This analysis aims to generate genome-scale, developmental profiles of gene expression in embryos of the spider P. tepidariorum, which facilitate a wide range of studies using this spider species.
Project description:Generalist arthropod herbivores rapidly adapt to a broad range of host plants. However, the extent of transcriptional reprogramming in the herbivore and its hosts associated with adaptation remains poorly understood. Using the spider mite Tetranychus urticae and tomato as models with available genomic resources, we investigated the reciprocal genome-wide transcriptional changes in both spider mite and tomato as a consequence of mite’s adaptation to tomato We used microarray to assess global gene expression in Solanum lycopersicum cv. Moneymaker upon Tetranychus urticae attack by tomato-adapted and non-adapted spider mite lines.
Project description:Social stress mouse models were used to simulate human post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). C57B/6 mice exposed to SJL aggressor mice exhibited behaviors accepted as PTSD-in-mouse phenotype: 'frozen' motion, aggressor's barrier avoidance, startled jumping, and retarded locomotion. Transcripts in spleen, blood and hemi-brain of stressed and control C57B/6 mice were analyzed using Agilent's mouse genome-wide arrays.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE31525: Spider mite preliminary feeding experiment with mites reared on bean and two Arabidopsis thaliana accessions GSE31527: Developmental stage-specific gene expression in the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) GSE32005: Developmental stage-specific small RNA composition in the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) GSE32009: Transcriptional responses of the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) after transfer to different plant hosts Refer to individual Series
Project description:We sequenced messenger RNA from mixed stages of the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) reared on bean (Phaseolus vulgaris cv California Red Kidney; the laboratory host plant for mites) and two Arabidopsis thaliana accessions which were considered to either be susceptible (Kondara) or resistant (Bla-2) to mite feeding. This pilot experiment was conducted to assess gene expression differences of mites grown on sensitive versus resistant Arabidopsis accessions, as well as differences in mites feeding on different host species. The expression data was used for gene model validation of genes predicted by EuGene in the spider mite genome and to assess gene expression levels. Examination of gene expression of spider mites reared on beans and two Arabidopsis accessions (Kondara and Bla-2).
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Candida albicans comparing SDH2 deletion mutant cells with the wild-type cells in both Spider medium and Spider medium supplemented with 100mM glucose
Project description:The repressive capacity of cytosine DNA methylation is mediated by recruitment of silencing complexes by methyl-CpG binding domain (MBD) proteins. Unexpectedly, we discovered that a family of arthropod Copia retrotransposons have incorporated a host-derived MBD domain. We functionally demonstrate how retrotransposon encoded MBDs preferentially bind to CpG-dense methylated regions, which correspond to transposable element regions of the host genome, in the myriapod Strigamia maritima. Consistently, young MBD-encoding Copia retrotransposons (CopiaMBD) accumulate in regions with higher CpG-densities than other LTR-retrotransposons also present in the genome. This would suggest that retrotransposons use MBDs to integrate into heterochromatic regions in Strigamia, avoiding potentially harmful insertions into host genes. In contrast, CopiaMBD insertions in the spider Stegodyphus dumicola genome disproportionately accumulate in methylated gene bodies when compared to other spider LTR-retrotransposons. Given that transposons are not actively targeted by DNA methylation in the spider genome, this distribution bias would also support a role for MBDs in the integration process. Together, these data demonstrate that retrotransposons can co-opt host-derived epigenome readers, potentially harnessing the host epigenome landscape to advantageously tune the retrotransposition process.
