Project description:Purpose: The goal of the current study was to find the candidate genes responsible for the habita specific clock variation in N. discreta. Methods: We performed RNA-seq experiment using four strains ; African parent (FGSC8831), North American parent (FGSC 8578) and two representative progeny representing African clock phenotype (N309-89) and North American clock phenotype (N309-50). Results: We identified one candidate gene that meets our criteria; confirmed it's expression by qPCR and it's expression pattern is associated with parent genotype. Conclusions: Our approach using the expression profiles and SNP data of two parents and two representative progeny led us to identify a candidate gene for a complex clock adaptation phenotype.
Project description:Neurospora tetrasperma is a pseudohomothallic filamentous ascomycete with a large (~ 7 Mbp) region of suppressed recombination surrounding its mating-type (mat) locus. The suppressed recombination has lead to sequence divergence between the two mating-type chromosomes of wild-type heterokaryotic strains, while the remaining genome is largely homoallelic. In this study, we use microarray technology to manifest expression divergence linked to mating type in N. tetrasperma. N. tetrasperma and N. crassa, were grown on agar regimes inducing sexual growth (Synthetic Crossing medium) and vegetative growth (Vogel's Medium), respectively. [SC]: Neurospora tetrasperma mat-A FGSC#1270; mat-a FGSC#1271; Mat-A FGSC#9033; mat-a FGSC#9034; N. crassa mat-A FGSC#2489 and mat-a FGSC 4200: Synthetic Crossing medium was used as a nutrient regime before sampling and processing [Veg]: Neurospora tetrasperma mat-A FGSC#1270; mat-a FGSC#1271; Mat-A FGSC#9033; mat-a FGSC#9034; N. crassa mat-A FGSC#2489 and mat-a FGSC 4200: Vogel's Medium (Vegetative Medium) was used as a nutrient regime before sampling and processing
