Project description:Upon colonizing new habitats invasive species face a series of new selection pressures as a result of changing abiotic conditions and novel biotic interactions with native species. These new selection pressures can be accommodated by different mechanism that act on different levels and across different time scales: 1) By changing transcriptomic profiles species can react by plasticity within individual physiological limitations. 2) Invasive populations can adapt by fixing beneficial genetic variants in response to the newly encountered selection pressures. Here, we compare the genomic and transcriptomic landscapes of two independent invasions of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas into the North Sea. In detail, we combine high density full genome resequencing and low density ddRAD on the genomic level with RNAseq on the transcriptomic level to reveal outlier loci (SNPs) indicative of adaptation, as well as transcriptomic profiles from a translocation experiment to show immediate physiological reactions. The low congruence between differentially regulated genes and outlier loci indicates that different processes act on the different time scales. By contrasting population outlier loci and population specific transcriptomic profiles we can thus identify relevant processes acting during different phases of the invasive process, which will allow to take a glimpse at the traits and processes characterizing successful invasions.
Project description:Investigate the effects of goitrogenous compound on Amphiprion ocellaris larvae Amphiprion larvae were treated for 19 days with a mix of Methimazole, potassium perchlorate and iopanoic acid
Project description:Investigate the effects of SR9243 and T3 on Amphiprion ocellaris larvae Amphiprion larvae were treated for 5 days at 10-7M SR9243 and at 10-7M T3
Project description:GeneSeek HD Bovine 77k Genotyping array is used to estimate population structure and ancestry of bovine and evaluate loci responsible for complex traits. Further, copy number variation of bovine can be estimated by GeneSeek HD Bovine 77k Genotyping array. Here, we estimate population structure and ancestry of Qinchuan cattle.
2017-06-15 | GSE100038 | GEO
Project description:Summer flounder population structure and candidate loci
Project description:Genome-wide patterns of variation across individuals provide a powerful source of data for uncovering the history of migration, range expansion, and adaptation of the human species. However, high-resolution surveys of variation in genotype, haplotype and copy number have generally focused on a small number of population groups. Here we report the analysis and public release of high-quality genotypes at 525,910 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 396 copy-number-variable loci in a worldwide sample of 29 populations. Analysis of SNP genotypes yields strongly supported fine-scale inferences about population structure. Increasing linkage disequilibrium is observed with geographic distance from Africa, as expected under a serial founder effect for an out-of-Africa spread of human populations. New approaches for haplotype analysis produce inferences about population structure that complement results based on unphased SNPs. Despite a difference from SNPs in the frequency spectrum of the copy-number variants (CNVs) detected—including a comparatively large number of CNVs in previously unexamined populations from Oceania and the Americas—the global distribution of CNVs largely accords with population structure analyses for SNP data sets of similar size. Our results produce new inferences about inter-population variation, support the utility of CNVs in human population-genetic research, and serve as a genomic resource for human-genetic studies in diverse worldwide populations. Keywords: High Density SNP array
Project description:ETS gene fusions have been characterized in a majority of prostate cancers, however key molecular alterations in ETS negative cancers are unclear. Here we used an outlier meta-analysis (meta-COPA) to identify SPINK1 outlier-expression exclusively in a subset of ETS rearrangement negative cancers (~10% of total cases). We validated the mutual exclusivity of SPINK1 expression and ETS fusion status, demonstrated that SPINK1 outlier-expression can be detected non-invasively in urine and observed that SPINK1 outlier-expression is an independent predictor of biochemical recurrence after resection. We identified the aggressive 22RV1 cell line as a SPINK1 outlier-expression model, and demonstrate that SPINK1 knockdown in 22RV1 attenuates invasion, suggesting a functional role in ETS rearrangement negative prostate cancers. Keywords: Genetic Modification