Project description:Human oocyte cDNA library was hybridized on a multi-species oocyte array (Bovine, Mouse, Frog) Temperature stringency criteria was used to evaluate the conservation degree of oocyte genes among vertebrates (Bovine, Mouse, Frog)
2010-12-15 | GSE23963 | GEO
Project description:Study of microbial in freshwater systems in Qinling Mountains region 2,China
Project description:Frogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-quality reference genome sequence for the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, along with draft chromosome-scale sequences of three distantly related emerging model frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Engystomops pustulosus and Hymenochirus boettgeri. Frog chromosomes have remained remarkably stable since the Mesozoic Era, with limited Robertsonian (i.e., centric) translocations and end-to-end fusions found among the smaller chromosomes. Conservation of synteny includes conservation of centromere locations, marked by centromeric tandem repeats associated with Cenp-a binding, surrounded by pericentromeric LINE/L1 elements. We explored chromosome structure across frogs, using a dense meiotic linkage map for X. tropicalis and chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) data for all species. Abundant satellite repeats occupy the unusually long (~20 megabase) terminal regions of each chromosome that coincide with high rates of recombination. Both embryonic and differentiated cells show reproducible association of centromeric chromatin, and of telomeres, reflecting a Rabl-like configuration. Our comparative analyses reveal 13 conserved ancestral anuran chromosomes from which contemporary frog genomes were constructed.
Project description:In the current study Streptomyces sp. MBT27, strain isolated from remote area of Qinling mountains, was fermented with different carbon sources and metabolomic analysis of secondary metabolites was carried out by MS and multivariate data analysis. The statistical analysis suggested that extracts with stronger antimicrobial activity against B. subtilis contained higher concentrations of actinomycins. Further analyses of the metabolic profiles by oPLS-DA and GNPS molecular networking resulted in the isolation of a novel actinomycin analog, actinomycin L1 and L2 and three known actinomycins D, X0beta and X2.
Project description:Human oocyte cDNA library was hybridized on a multi-species oocyte array (Bovine, Mouse, Frog) Temperature stringency criteria was used to evaluate the conservation degree of oocyte genes among vertebrates (Bovine, Mouse, Frog) 2 technical replicates on distinct array were made at each pre-determined hybridization temperature (45°C, 50°C, 55°C), overall, the experiment includes 6 arrays
Project description:Amphibian populations around the world are threatened by an emerging infectious pathogen, the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). How can a fungal skin infection kill such a broad range of amphibian hosts? And why are certain species particularly susceptible to the impacts of Bd? Here we use a genomics approach to understand the genetic response of multiple susceptible frog species to Bd infection. We characterize the transcriptomes of two closely-related endangered frog species (Rana muscosa and Rana sierrae) and analyze whole genome expression profiles from frogs in controlled Bd-infection experiments. We integrate the Rana results with a comparable dataset from a more distantly-related susceptible species (Silurana tropicalis). We demonstrate that Bd-infected frogs show massive disruption of skin function and show no evidence of a robust immune response. The genetic response to infection is shared across the focal susceptible species, suggesting a common effect of Bd on susceptible frogs.
2012-05-01 | GSE34235 | GEO
Project description:Species delimitation in the leopard frog species complex
Project description:RNA-seq technology was used to identify differentially localized transcripts from Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis stage VI oocytes. Besides the discovery of a group of novel animally enriched RNAs, this study revealed a surprisingly low conservation of vegetal RNA localization between the two frog species.