Project description:This project is designed to measure changes in gene expression during sea lamprey development RNA was extracted from sea lamprey embryos at 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, and 5 days post-fertilization and used to generate RNAseq data
Project description:This project is designed to measure changes in gene expression during sea lamprey development and in the adult germline RNA was extracted in biological triplicate from sea lamprey embryos at 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, and 5 days post-fertilization and in technical replicates from adult testes using trizol extraction. RNA was analyzed on the Nanostring nCounter gene expression assay to measure changes in gene expression across developmental time points and in adult testes
Project description:As an ancient jawless vertebrate species, the lamprey offers an important model to probe the evolutionary history of retinal cells. In this study, we generated a cell atlas of the adult sea lamprey retina using single-cell RNA sequencing
Project description:To determine gene expression differences in the olfactory epithelium of sea lamprey between sequential yet behaviorally distinct adult life history stages
Project description:Strand-specific RNA-seq libraries from different sea lamprey tissues (brain, heart, liver, kidney, ovary, testis) were produced in order to enhance the genome annotation for protein coding genes.
Project description:The identification of homologous cell types across species represents a crucial step in understanding cell type evolution. The retina is particularly amenable to comparative analysis because the basic morphology, connectivity, and function of its six major cell classes have remained largely invariant since the earliest stages of vertebrate evolution. We used comparative single-nucleus chromatin accessibility analysis of lamprey, fish, bird, and mammalian retinas, which began to diverge over half a billion years ago, to demonstrate cross-species conservation of cis-regulatory codes in all six retinal cell classes. In this study, we acquired retinal single-cell gene expression profiling (scRNA-seq) and single-nucleus chromatin accessibility (snATAC-seq) from sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), a jawless species. We also acquired long-read sequence data from lamprey retina and single-nucleus chromatin accessibility from chicken (Gallus gallus).
