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Gu X, Li L, Li S, Shi W, Zhong X, Su Y, Wang T. Adaptive evolution and co-evolution of chloroplast genomes in Pteridaceae species occupying different habitats: overlapping residues are always highly mutated. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 23:511. [PMID: 37880608 PMCID: PMC10598918 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04523-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND The evolution of protein residues depends on the mutation rates of their encoding nucleotides, but it may also be affected by co-evolution with other residues. Chloroplasts function as environmental sensors, transforming fluctuating environmental signals into different physiological responses. We reasoned that habitat diversity may affect their rate and mode of evolution, which might be evidenced in the chloroplast genome. The Pteridaceae family of ferns occupy an unusually broad range of ecological niches, which provides an ideal system for analysis. RESULTS We conducted adaptive evolution and intra-molecular co-evolution analyses of Pteridaceae chloroplast DNAs (cpDNAs). The results indicate that the residues undergoing adaptive evolution and co-evolution were mostly independent, with only a few residues being simultaneously involved in both processes, and these overlapping residues tend to exhibit high mutations. Additionally, our data showed that Pteridaceae chloroplast genes are under purifying selection. Regardless of whether we grouped species by lineage (which corresponded with ecological niches), we determined that positively selected residues mainly target photosynthetic genes. CONCLUSIONS Our work provides evidence for the adaptive evolution of Pteridaceae cpDNAs, especially photosynthetic genes, to different habitats and sheds light on the adaptive evolution and co-evolution of proteins.
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- Xiaolin Gu
- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
- Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518057, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China.
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Gao L, Li Q, Zhang Z, Ge P, Sun J, Qiao X, Wang L, Song L. Species-specific CgCaspase-Cg-5 in the pacific oyster induces haemocyte apoptosis by regulating the mRNA expression of apoptosis-related genes in the early stage of immune response. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2023:108856. [PMID: 37257569 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2023.108856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 05/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Caspases are cysteinyl aspartate-specific proteinases, playing critical roles in apoptotic pathway to induce apoptosis and inflammatory response. In this study, the expanded repertoire of Caspases was revealed in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, and a total of 30 Caspases were identified from the genomic and stress-induced transcriptomic databases of the Pacific oyster. They were clustered into CgCaspase-2/9, CgCaspase-8/10, CgCaspase-3/6/7, CgCaspase-Cg, and CgCaspase-L. CgCaspase-Cg subgroup was found to be specifically expanded after a positive selection in oyster with average Ka/Ks of 0.50. The mRNA expression of CgCaspase-Cg-5 was found to be obviously induced against various bacterial and viral stimulations or environmental stresses. The relative expression level of CgCaspase-Cg-5 in haemocytes increased and reached the peak at 6 h after Vibrio splendidus stimulation, which was 5.57-fold of that in the control group (p < 0.01). In the oysters whose CgCaspase-Cg-5 expression was knocked down, the mRNA expression of apoptosis-related genes including CgBcl2, CgBax, CgCaspase3 and CgCaspase9 changed significantly at 12 h after V. splendidus stimulation. The expression of CgBax, CgCaspase3 and CgCaspase9 decreased, which was 0.64-fold (p < 0.05), 0.53-fold (p < 0.05) and 0.62-fold (p < 0.01), while the expression of CgBcl2 increased, which was 2.81-fold (p < 0.01) of that in the EGFP-dsRNA group, respectively. Meanwhile, the apoptotic rate of haemocytes (1.90 ± 0.71%) significantly decreased compared to that in the EGFP-dsRNA group (5.40 ± 0.72%) (p < 0.05), and the histological damages of widened cell spacing, gill filament swelling and loose cytoplasm were observed in the CgCaspase-Cg-5-knockdown oysters after V. splendidus stimulation. Collectively, CgCaspase-Cg subgroup was specifically expanded in oyster and some bivalve species, and species-specific CgCaspase-Cg-5 regulated the mRNA expression of the apoptosis-related genes to induce haemocyte apoptosis in the early stage of immune response. This provided insight into the evolutionary and functional characteristics of Caspase repertoire in the Pacific oyster and highlighted the important role of CgCaspase-Cg-5 in the response to pathogen infection and environmental stresses.
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- Lei Gao
- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Laboratory of Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Process, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, China.
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology and Disease Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Dalian Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China; Laboratory of Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Process, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, China.
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Comparative transcriptome analyses of three Gentiana species provides signals for the molecular footprints of selection effects and the phylogenetic relationships. Mol Genet Genomics 2023; 298:399-411. [PMID: 36592219 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-022-01991-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Species in Gentiana section Cruciata are important alpine plants with a center of diversity and speciation in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), and some of these species are sympatrically distributed in northeastern QTP. Studies on genome features and natural selection signatures of sympatric species in section Crucata have been impeded by a lack of genomic resources. Here, we showed transcript characterizations and molecular footprints of selection effects on G. straminea, G. dahurica and G. officinalis based on the comparative transcriptome. A total of 62.97 Gb clean reads were obtained with unigene numbers per species ranging from 141,819 to 236,408 after assembly. We found that these three species had similar distribution of functional categories in different databases, and key enzyme-encoding genes involved in the iridoids biosynthesis were also obtained. The selective pressure analyses indicated that most paired orthologs between these three species were subject to negative selection, and only a low proportion of the orthologs that underwent positive selection were detected. We found that some positive selected genes were involved in "catalytic activity", "metabolic process", "response to stimulus" and "response to stress". Besides, large numbers of SSR primer pairs with transferabilities were successfully designed based on the available transcriptome datasets of three Gentiana species. The phylogenetic relationships reconstructed based on 352 single-copy nuclear genes provided a rough phylogenetic framework for this genus and confirmed the monophyly of section Cruciata. Our study not only provides insights for the natural selection effects on sympatric Gentiana species, but also enhances future genetic breeding or evolutionary studies on Qinjiao species.
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Zhang X, Zhao Y, Kou Y, Chen X, Yang J, Zhang H, Zhao Z, Zhao Y, Zhao G, Li Z. Diploid chromosome-level reference genome and population genomic analyses provide insights into Gypenoside biosynthesis and demographic evolution of Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Cucurbitaceae). HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2022; 10:uhac231. [PMID: 36643751 PMCID: PMC9832869 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhac231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunb.) Makino is a perennial creeping herbaceous plant in the family Cucurbitaceae, which has great medicinal value and commercial potential, but urgent conservation efforts are needed due to the gradual decreases and fragmented distribution of its wild populations. Here, we report the high-quality diploid chromosome-level genome of G. pentaphyllum obtained using a combination of next-generation sequencing short reads, Nanopore long reads, and Hi-C sequencing technologies. The genome is anchored to 11 pseudo-chromosomes with a total size of 608.95 Mb and 26 588 predicted genes. Comparative genomic analyses indicate that G. pentaphyllum is estimated to have diverged from Momordica charantia 60.7 million years ago, with no recent whole-genome duplication event. Genomic population analyses based on genotyping-by-sequencing and ecological niche analyses indicated low genetic diversity but a strong population structure within the species, which could classify 32 G. pentaphyllum populations into three geographical groups shaped jointly by geographic and climate factors. Furthermore, comparative transcriptome analyses showed that the genes encoding enzyme involved in gypenoside biosynthesis had higher expression levels in the leaves and tendrils. Overall, the findings obtained in this study provide an effective molecular basis for further studies of demographic genetics, ecological adaption, and systematic evolution in Cucurbitaceae species, as well as contributing to molecular breeding, and the biosynthesis and biotransformation of gypenoside.
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- Xiao Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710069, China
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- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710069, China
- College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Normal University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710069, China
- College of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510275, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710069, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550018, China
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Su X, Liu T, Liu YP, Harris AJ, Chen JY. Adaptive radiation in Orinus, an endemic alpine grass of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, based on comparative transcriptomic analysis. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 277:153786. [PMID: 35963042 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2022.153786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The species of Orinus (Poaceae) are important alpine plants with a variety of phenotypic traits and potential usages in molecular breeding toward drought-tolerant forage crops. However, the genetic basis of evolutionary adaption and diversification in the genus is still unclear. In the present study, we obtained transcriptomes for the two most divergent species, O. thoroldii and O. kokonoricus, using the Illumina platform and de novo assembly. In total, we generated 23,029 and 24,086 unigenes with N50 values of 1188 and 1203 for O. thoroldii and O. kokonoricus respectively, and identified 19,005 pairs of putative orthologs between the two species of Orinus. For these orthologs, estimations of non-synonymous/synonymous substitution rate ratios indicated that 568 pairs may be under strongly positive selection (Ka/Ks > 1), and Gene Ontogeny (GO) enrichment analysis revealed that significantly enriched pathways were in DNA repair and resistance to abiotic stress. Meanwhile, the divergence times of species between O. thoroldii and O. kokonoricus occurred 3.2 million years ago (Mya), and the recent evolutionary branch is an allotetraploid species, Cleistogenes songorica. We also detected a Ks peak of ∼0.60 for Orinus. Additionally, we identified 188 pairs of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the two species of Orinus, which were significantly enrich in stress resistance and lateral root development. Thus, we considered that the species diversification and evolutionary adaption of this genus was initiated by environmental selection, followed by phenotypic differentiation, finally leading to niche separation in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
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- Xu Su
- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China; Academy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810016, China; Key Laboratory of Medicinal Animal and Plant Resources of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China; Key Laboratory of Land Surface Processes and Ecological Conservation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, The Ministry of Education, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China; School of Geographical Science, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China; Key Laboratory of Medicinal Animal and Plant Resources of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China; Key Laboratory of Medicinal Animal and Plant Resources of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China
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Comparative transcriptome analysis on the mangrove Acanthus ilicifolius and its two terrestrial relatives provides insights into adaptation to intertidal habitats. Gene 2022; 839:146730. [PMID: 35840004 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2022] [Revised: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Acanthus is a unique genus covering both mangroves and terrestrial species, and thus is an ideal system to comparatively analyze the mechanisms of mangrove adaptation to intertidal habitats. We performed RNA sequencing of the mangrove plant Acanthus ilicifolius and its two terrestrial relatives, Acanthus leucostachyus and Acanthus mollis. A total of 91,125, 118,290, and 141,640 unigenes were obtained. Simple sequence repeats (SSR) analysis showed that A. ilicifolius had more SSRs, the highest frequency of distribution, and higher in polymorphism potential compared to the two terrestrial relatives. Phylogenetic analyses suggested a relatively recent split between A. ilicifolius and A. leucostachyus, i.e., about 16.76 million years ago (Mya), after their ancestor divergence with A. mollis (32.11 Mya), indicating that speciation of three Acanthus species occurred in the Early to Middle Miocene. Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment revealed that the unique unigenes in A. ilicifolius are predominantly related to rhythmic process, reproductive process and response to stimuli. The accelerated evolution and positive selection analyses indicated that the genus Acanthus migrated from terrestrial to intertidal habitats, where 311 pairs may be under positive selection. Functional enrichment analysis revealed that these genes associated with essential metabolism and biosynthetic pathways such as oxidative phosphorylation, plant hormone signal transduction, photosynthetic carbon fixation and arginine and proline metabolism, are related to the adaptation of A. ilicifolius to intertidal habitats, which are characterized by high salinity and hypoxia. Our results indicate the evolutionary processes and the mechanisms underlying the adaptability of Acanthus to various harsh environments from the arid terrestrial to intertidal habitats.
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Zheng H, Yu MY, Han Y, Tai B, Ni SF, Ji RF, Pu CJ, Chen K, Li FQ, Xiao H, Shen Y, Zhou XT, Huang LQ. Comparative Transcriptomics and Metabolites Analysis of Two Closely Related Euphorbia Species Reveal Environmental Adaptation Mechanism and Active Ingredients Difference. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:905275. [PMID: 35712557 PMCID: PMC9194899 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.905275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Roots of Euphorbia fischeriana and Euphorbia ebracteolata are recorded as the source plant of traditional Chinese medicine "Langdu," containing active ingredients with anticancer and anti-AIDS activity. However, the two species have specific patterns in the graphic distribution. Compared with E. ehracteolata, E. fischeriana distributes in higher latitude and lower temperature areas and might have experienced cold stress adaptation. To reveal the molecular mechanism of environmental adaptation, RNA-seq was performed toward the roots, stems, and leaves of E. fischeriana and E. ehracteolata. A total of 6,830 pairs of putative orthologs between the two species were identified. Estimations of non-synonymous or synonymous substitution rate ratios for these orthologs indicated that 533 of the pairs may be under positive selection (Ka/Ks > 0.5). Functional enrichment analysis revealed that significant proportions of the orthologs were in the TCA cycle, fructose and mannose metabolism, starch and sucrose metabolism, fatty acid biosynthesis, and terpenoid biosynthesis providing insights into how the two closely related Euphorbia species adapted differentially to extreme environments. Consistent with the transcriptome, a higher content of soluble sugars and proline was obtained in E. fischeriana, reflecting the adaptation of plants to different environments. Additionally, 5 primary or secondary metabolites were screened as the biomarkers to distinguish the two species. Determination of 4 diterpenoids was established and performed, showing jolkinolide B as a representative component in E. fischeriana, whereas ingenol endemic to E. ebracteolate. To better study population genetics, EST-SSR markers were generated and tested in 9 species of Euphorbia. A total of 33 of the 68 pairs were screened out for producing clear fragments in at least four species, which will furthermore facilitate the studies on the genetic improvement and phylogenetics of this rapidly adapting taxon. In this study, transcriptome and metabolome analyses revealed the evolution of genes related to cold stress tolerance, biosynthesis of TCA cycle, soluble sugars, fatty acids, and amino acids, consistent with the molecular strategy that genotypes adapting to environment. The key active ingredients of the two species were quantitatively analyzed to reveal the difference in pharmacodynamic substance basis and molecular mechanism, providing insights into rational crude drug use.
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- Han Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
- Mongolian Medicine College, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, China
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- Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan Xinhua Hospital, Huainan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Hulunbeier Mongolian Medical Hospital, Hulunbeier, China
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- Hulunbeier Mongolian Medical Hospital, Hulunbeier, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Yang Z, Ma W, He X, Zhao T, Yang X, Wang L, Ma Q, Liang L, Wang G. Species divergence and phylogeography of Corylus heterophylla Fisch complex (Betulaceae): Inferred from molecular, climatic and morphological data. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2022; 168:107413. [PMID: 35031460 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Historical geo-climatic changes have shaped the geographical distributions and genetic diversity of numerous plant taxa in East Asia, which promote species divergence and ultimately speciation. Here, we integrated multiple approaches, including molecular phylogeography, ecological niche modeling, and morphological traits to examine the nucleotide diversity and interspecific divergence within Corylus heterophylla complex (C. heterophylla, C. kweichowensis, and C. yunnanensis). These three sibling taxa harbored similar high levels of nucleotide diversity at the species level. The molecular data (SCNG and cpDNA) unanimously supported the division of C. heterophylla complex into two major clades, with C. yunnanensis diverged earlier from the complex, whereas C. heterophylla and C. kweichowensis could hardly be separated. The split between the two clades (c. 12.89 Ma) coincided with the formation of Sichuan Basin in the middle Miocene, while the divergence among and within the five subclades (YUN1-YUN3, HK1-HK2) occurred from the late Miocene to the Pleistocene. C. heterophylla of northern China experienced glacial contraction and interglacial expansion during the Quaternary, whereas C. kweichowensis and C. yunnanensis of southern China presented population expansion even during the last glacial maximum. Despite of high levels of genetic admixture between C. heterophylla and C. kweichowensis, significant ecological and morphological discrepancy as well as incomplete geographic isolation indicated that adaptive evolution triggered by divergent selection may have played important roles in incipient ecological speciation.
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- Zhen Yang
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China; National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Hazelnut, Beijing, 100091, China; Hazelnut Engineering and Technical Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China; National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Hazelnut, Beijing, 100091, China; Hazelnut Engineering and Technical Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China; National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Hazelnut, Beijing, 100091, China; Hazelnut Engineering and Technical Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China; National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Hazelnut, Beijing, 100091, China; Hazelnut Engineering and Technical Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Anhui Academy of Forestry, Hefei, 230031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China; National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Hazelnut, Beijing, 100091, China; Hazelnut Engineering and Technical Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China; National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Hazelnut, Beijing, 100091, China; Hazelnut Engineering and Technical Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China; National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Hazelnut, Beijing, 100091, China; Hazelnut Engineering and Technical Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, 100091, China.
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Identification of Sex-Related Genes from the Three-Spot Swimming Crab Portunus sanguinolentus and Comparative Analysis with the Crucifix Crab Charybdis feriatus. Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:ani11071946. [PMID: 34209957 PMCID: PMC8300171 DOI: 10.3390/ani11071946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2021] [Revised: 06/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Crabs within the family Portunidae are important marine species in both aquaculture and fishery sectors. The current aquaculture status of most portunids still relies on wild-caught fisheries due to the lack of essential knowledge regarding their reproductive biology and underlying governing mechanism. In the present study, we compared the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the different sexes of Portunus sanguinolentus based on their gonadal transcriptome profiles and subsequently contrasted them with the gonadal DEGs of Charybdis feriatus, the other member of the family Portunidae. In total, 40,964 DEGs between the ovaries and testes of P. sanguinolentus were uncovered, with 27,578 up-regulated and 13,386 down-regulated in females. After comparison, C. feriatus has approximately 63.5% of genes in common with P. sanguinolentus, with 62.6% showing similar expression patterns. Interestingly, the DMRT gene was specifically expressed in male P. sanguinolentus, while its homologous gene—doublesex (DSX)—was specifically expressed in male C. feriatus. The DEGs obtained from the gonadal transcriptome of P. sanguinolentus are a beneficial resource for future genetic and genomic research in P. sanguinolentus and its close species. The transcriptomic comparison analysis might provide references for better understanding the sex determination and differentiation mechanisms among portunids. Abstract Crabs within the family Portunidae are important marine species in both aquaculture and fishery sectors. The current aquaculture status of most portunids, however, still relies on wild-caught fisheries due to the lack of essential knowledge regarding their reproductive biology and underlying governing mechanism. With the advancement of sequencing technology, transcriptome sequencing has been progressively used to understand various physiological processes, especially on non-model organisms. In the present study, we compared the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between sexes of Portunus sanguinolentus based on their gonadal transcriptome profiles and subsequently contrasted them with the gonadal DEGs of Charybdis feriatus, the other member of Family Portunidae. In total, 40,964 DEGs between ovaries and testes were uncovered, with 27,578 up- and 13,386 down-regulated in females. Among those, some sex-related DEGs were identified, including a dmrt-like (DMRT) gene which was specifically expressed in males. C. feriatus has approximately 63.5% of genes common with P. sanguinolentus, with 62.6% showing similar expression patterns. Interestingly, the DMRT gene was specifically expressed in male P. sanguinolentus while its homologous gene—doublesex (DSX)—was specifically expressed in male C. feriatus. The DEGs obtained from the gonadal transcriptome of P. sanguinolentus are a beneficial resource for future genetic and genomic research in P. sanguinolentus and its close species. The transcriptomic comparison analysis might provide references for better understanding the sex determination and differentiation mechanisms among portunids.
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Wang XJ, Barrett SCH, Zhong L, Wu ZK, Li DZ, Wang H, Zhou W. The Genomic Selfing Syndrome Accompanies the Evolutionary Breakdown of Heterostyly. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:168-180. [PMID: 32761213 PMCID: PMC7782863 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The evolutionary transition from outcrossing to selfing can have important genomic consequences. Decreased effective population size and the reduced efficacy of selection are predicted to play an important role in the molecular evolution of the genomes of selfing species. We investigated evidence for molecular signatures of the genomic selfing syndrome using 66 species of Primula including distylous (outcrossing) and derived homostylous (selfing) taxa. We complemented our comparative analysis with a microevolutionary study of P. chungensis, which is polymorphic for mating system and consists of both distylous and homostylous populations. We generated chloroplast and nuclear genomic data sets for distylous, homostylous, and distylous–homostylous species and identified patterns of nonsynonymous to synonymous divergence (dN/dS) and polymorphism (πN/πS) in species or lineages with contrasting mating systems. Our analysis of coding sequence divergence and polymorphism detected strongly reduced genetic diversity and heterozygosity, decreased efficacy of purifying selection, purging of large-effect deleterious mutations, and lower rates of adaptive evolution in samples from homostylous compared with distylous populations, consistent with theoretical expectations of the genomic selfing syndrome. Our results demonstrate that self-fertilization is a major driver of molecular evolutionary processes with genomic signatures of selfing evident in both old and relatively young homostylous populations.
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- Xin-Jia Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.,Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.,Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.,Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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Xie DF, Cheng RY, Fu X, Zhang XY, Price M, Lan YL, Wang CB, He XJ. A Combined Morphological and Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Karst-Environment Adaptation for the Genus Urophysa (Ranunculaceae). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:667988. [PMID: 34177982 PMCID: PMC8223000 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.667988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The karst environment is characterized by low soil water content, periodic water deficiency, and poor nutrient availability, which provides an ideal natural laboratory for studying the adaptive evolution of its inhabitants. However, how species adapt to such a special karst environment remains poorly understood. Here, transcriptome sequences of two Urophysa species (Urophysa rockii and Urophysa henryi), which are Chinese endemics with karst-specific distribution, and allied species in Semiaquilegia and Aquilegia (living in non-karst habitat) were collected. Single-copy genes (SCGs) were extracted to perform the phylogenetic analysis using concatenation and coalescent methods. Positively selected genes (PSGs) and clusters of paralogous genes (Mul_genes) were detected and subsequently used to conduct gene function annotation. We filtered 2,271 SCGs and the coalescent analysis revealed that 1,930 SCGs shared the same tree topology, which was consistent with the topology detected from the concatenated tree. Total of 335 PSGs and 243 Mul_genes were detected, and many were enriched in stress and stimulus resistance, transmembrane transport, cellular ion homeostasis, calcium ion transport, calcium signaling regulation, and water retention. Both molecular and morphological evidences indicated that Urophysa species evolved complex strategies for adapting to hostile karst environments. Our findings will contribute to a new understanding of genetic and phenotypic adaptive mechanisms of karst adaptation in plants.
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- Deng-Feng Xie
- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Radulović NS, Živković Stošić MZ. Long-chain syn-1-phenylalkane-1,3-diyl diacetates, related phenylalkane derivatives, and sec-alcohols, all possessing dominantly iso-branched chain termini, and 2/3-methyl-branched fatty acids from Primula veris L. (Primulaceae) wax. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2021; 186:112732. [PMID: 33761377 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 02/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Herein, the results of the first study of non-flavonoid constituents of aboveground surface-wax washings of Primula veris L. (Primulaceae) are presented. Chromatography of the washings yielded a minor fraction composed of n-, iso-, and anteiso-series of long-chained syn-1-phenylalkane-1,3-diyl diacetates, 3-oxo-1-phenylalkan-1-yl acetates, 1-phenylalkane-1,3-diones, 1-hydroxy-1-phenylalkan-3-ones, sec-alcohols (2- to 10-alkanols), and n-, iso-, anteiso-, 2-methylalkanoic and 3-methylalkanoic acids; 118 of these constituents represent up to now unreported natural compounds. The structural/stereochemical elucidation was accomplished by the synthesis of authentic standards, derivatization reactions, the use of gas chromatographic retention data and detailed 1D and 2D-NMR analyses of the obtained complex chromatographic fraction. Primula veris produces unusually high amounts of branched long-chained metabolites (>60%) except for the fatty acids where the percentage of branched isomers is comparable to the ones with n-chains. Noteworthy is the fact that long-chained α- and β-methyl substituted fatty acids were detected herein for the first time in the kingdom Plantae.
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- Niko S Radulović
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000, Niš, Serbia.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000, Niš, Serbia
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Živković Stošić MZ, Radulović NS, Genčić MS, Ranđelović VN. Very-Long-Chain Wax Constituents from Primula veris and P. acaulis: Does the Paradigm of Non-Branched vs. Branched Chain Dominance Universally Hold in all Plant Taxa? Chem Biodivers 2021; 18:e2100285. [PMID: 34028186 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202100285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Herein n-, iso- and anteiso-series of very-long-chained (VLC) alkanes (C21 -C35 ), fatty acid benzyl esters (FABEs; C20 -C32 ), and 2-alkanones (C23 -C35 ) were identified in the wax of Primula veris L. and P. acaulis (L.) L. (Primulaceae). For the very first time in a sample of natural origin, the presence of iso- and anteiso-VLC FABEs and 2-alkanones was unequivocally confirmed by synthetic work, derivatization, and NMR. It should be noted that the studied species produced unusually high amounts of branched wax constituents (e. g., >50 % of 2-alkanones were branched isomers). The domination of iso-isomers, probably biosynthesized from leucine-derived starters, is a unique feature in the Plant Kingdom. The plant organ distribution of these VLC compounds in P. acaulis samples (different habitats and phenological phases) pointed to their possible ecological value. This was supported by a eutectic behavior of binary blends of FABEs and alkanes, as well as by high UV-C absorption by FABEs.
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- Milena Z Živković Stošić
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000, Niš, Serbia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000, Niš, Serbia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000, Niš, Serbia
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000, Niš, Serbia
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Yu X, Wang W, Yang H, Zhang X, Wang D, Tian X. Transcriptome and Comparative Chloroplast Genome Analysis of Vincetoxicum versicolor: Insights Into Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Implication. Front Genet 2021; 12:602528. [PMID: 33747039 PMCID: PMC7970127 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.602528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Vincetoxicum versicolor (Bunge) Decne is the original plant species of the Chinese herbal medicine Cynanchi Atrati Radix et Rhizoma. The lack of information on the transcriptome and chloroplast genome of V. versicolor hinders its evolutionary and taxonomic studies. Here, the V. versicolor transcriptome and chloroplast genome were assembled and functionally annotated. In addition, the comparative chloroplast genome analysis was conducted between the genera Vincetoxicum and Cynanchum. A total of 49,801 transcripts were generated, and 20,943 unigenes were obtained from V. versicolor. One thousand thirty-two unigenes from V. versicolor were classified into 73 functional transcription factor families. The transcription factors bHLH and AP2/ERF were the most significantly abundant, indicating that they should be analyzed carefully in the V. versicolor ecological adaptation studies. The chloroplast genomes of Vincetoxicum and Cynanchum exhibited a typical quadripartite structure with highly conserved gene order and gene content. They shared an analogous codon bias pattern in which the codons of protein-coding genes had a preference for A/U endings. The natural selection pressure predominantly influenced the chloroplast genes. A total of 35 RNA editing sites were detected in the V. versicolor chloroplast genome by RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data, and one of them restored the start codon in the chloroplast ndhD of V. versicolor. Phylogenetic trees constructed with protein-coding genes supported the view that Vincetoxicum and Cynanchum were two distinct genera.
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- Xiaolei Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pharmacology of Traditional Chinese Medical Formulae, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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Wang Y, Nie F, Shahid MQ, Baloch FS. Molecular footprints of selection effects and whole genome duplication (WGD) events in three blueberry species: detected by transcriptome dataset. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 20:250. [PMID: 32493212 PMCID: PMC7268529 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-02461-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Both selection effects and whole genome duplication played very important roles in plant speciation and evolution, and to decipher the corresponding molecular footprint has always been a central task of geneticists. Vaccinium is species rich genus that comprised of about 450 species, and blueberry is one of the most important species of Vaccinium genus, which is gaining popularity because of high healthful value. In this article, we aimed to decipher the molecular footprints of natural selection on the single copy genes and WGD events occur in the evolutionary history of blueberry species. RESULTS We identified 30,143, 29,922 and 28,891 putative protein coding sequences from 45,535, 42,914 and 43,630 unigenes assembled from the leaves' transcriptome assembly of 19 rabbiteye (T1), 13 southern highbush (T2) and 22 northern highbush (T3) blueberry cultivars. A total of 17, 21 and 27 single copy orthologs were found to undergone positive selection in T1 versus T2, T1 versus T3, and T2 versus T3, respectively, and these orthologs were enriched in metabolic pathways including "Terpenoid backbone biosynthesis", "Valine, leucine and isoleucine biosynthesis", "Butanoate metabolism", "C5-Branched dibasic acid metabolism" "Pantothenate and CoA biosynthesis". We also detected significant molecular footprints of a recent (about 9.04 MYA), medium (about 43.44 MYA) and an ancient (about 116.39 MYA) WGD events that occurred in the evolutionary history of three blueberry species. CONCLUSION Some important functional genes revealed positive selection effect in blueberry. At least three rounds of WGD events were detected in the evolutionary history of blueberry species. Our work provides insights about the genetic mechanism of adaptive evolution in blueberry and species radiation of Vaccinium in short geological scale time.
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- Yunsheng Wang
- College of Health and Life Science, Kaili University, Kaili City, 556011 Guizhou Province China
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- Biological institute of Guizhou Province, Guiyang City, 556000 Guizhou Province China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642 China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Breeding, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642 China
- College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642 Guangdong Province China
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- Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
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Peng JC, Ma XG, Wang YH, Sun H. New insights into the evolutionary history of Megacodon: Evidence from a newly discovered species. PLANT DIVERSITY 2020; 42:198-208. [PMID: 32695953 PMCID: PMC7361429 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2020.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Megacodon is an ideal genus to study speciation and ecological adaptation in the Sino-Himalayan region. The genus contains two species distributed at different elevations and in two separate areas. However, studies of this genus have long been impeded by a lack of fieldwork on one of its species, Megacodon venosus. In this study, we collected specimens of two Megacodon species and found an extraordinary new species of Megacodon in Lushui county of north-west Yunnan province, which we have since named Megacodon lushuiensis. We propose new species based on both morphological and molecular evidence. The finding of this new species emphasized the importance of ecological divergence in the divergence of Megacodon stylophorus and its parapatric low-elevation Megacodon species. To identify genetic determinants that underlie adaptations to different elevations, we characterized transcriptomes of the new species M. lushuiensis, which is distributed at low elevations, and M. stylophorus, which is distributed at high elevations. Comparative transcriptome analysis identified 8926 orthogroups containing single-copy genes, and 370 orthogroups containing significantly positively selected genes. The set of positively selected genes was enriched into 25 Gene Ontology terms, including "response to water deprivation", "response to osmotic stress", and "cellular response to external stimulus". Our results provide new insights into how ecological adaptation and speciation occurred in Megacodon and highlight the role of heterogeneous habitats in the speciation of plants in the Sino-Himalayan region.
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- Jun-Chu Peng
- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
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Phylogeny and highland adaptation of Chinese species in Allium section Daghestanica (Amaryllidaceae) revealed by transcriptome sequencing. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 146:106737. [PMID: 31982455 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Allium L. is one of the largest monocotyledonous genera with extensive distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. The fundamental phylogenies of Allium have been investigated using many morphological and molecular characters. However, the morphological characters may not agree with the molecular results in some Allium groups or sections (such as the Chinese Allium section Daghestanica), which may result in ambiguous species relationships and hinder further evolutionary and adaptive researches. Here, transcriptome sequences of the six Chinese endemics from Allium section Daghestanica were collected, with their single-copy genes (SCGs) were extracted. The interspecies relationships were analyzed using concatenation and coalescent methods. The branch-site model (BSM) was conducted to detect the positively selected genes (PSGs) in five highland species of this section. Based on 1644, 1281 and 1580 SCGs in flowers, leaves, and flowers-leaves combination respectively, a robust consistent and well-resolved phylogeny was generated from the concatenation method. Strong conflicts among individual gene trees were detected in the coalescent method, and morphological characters were incongruent with molecular relationships to some degree. Many PSGs were involved in responses of various stresses and stimuli (e.g. hypoxia, low temperature, aridity), DNA repair, metabolism, nutrient or energy intake, photosynthesis, and signal transduction. Our study revealed a clear interspecies relationship of Chinese endemics in Allium section Daghestanica and suggested that the discordance between morphological characters and molecular relationships might result from that the former are more susceptible to convergence compared with the latter. PSGs detected in our study may provide some insights into highland adaptation in Allium species.
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Wang X, Wu W, Jian S. Transcriptome analysis of two radiated Cycas species and the subsequent species delimitation of the Cycas taiwaniana complex. APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES 2019; 7:e11292. [PMID: 31667020 PMCID: PMC6814181 DOI: 10.1002/aps3.11292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2018] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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PREMISE Cycas is an important gymnosperm genus, and the most diverse of all cycad genera. The C. taiwaniana complex of species are morphologically similar and difficult to distinguish due to a lack of genomic resources. METHODS We characterized the transcriptomes of two closely related and endangered Cycas species endemic to Hainan, China: C. hainanensis and C. changjiangensis. Three single-copy nuclear genes in the C. taiwaniana complex were sequenced based on these transcriptomes, enabling us to evaluate the species boundaries using the multispecies coalescent method implemented in the Bayesian Phylogenetics and Phylogeography program. RESULTS We obtained 68,184 and 81,561 unigenes for C. changjiangensis and C. hainanensis, respectively. We identified six positively selected genes that are mainly involved in stimulus responses, suggesting that environmental adaptation may have played an important role in the relatively recent divergence of these species. The similar K S distribution peaks at 1.0 observed for the paralogs in the two species indicate a common whole-genome duplication event. Our species delimitation analysis indicated that the C. taiwaniana complex consists of three distinct species, which correspond to the previously reported morphological differences. DISCUSSION Our study provides valuable genetic resources for Cycas species and guidance for the taxonomic treatment of the C. taiwaniana complex, as well as new insights into evolution of species within Cycas.
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- Xin‐Hui Wang
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied BotanySouth China Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesGuangzhou510650People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100040People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied BotanySouth China Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesGuangzhou510650People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied BotanySouth China Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesGuangzhou510650People's Republic of China
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Wang P, Xing C, Wang J, Su Y, Mao Y. Evolutionary adaptation analysis of immune defense and hypoxia tolerance in two closely related Marsupenaeus species based on comparative transcriptomics. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2019; 92:861-870. [PMID: 31276791 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2019.06.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 06/22/2019] [Accepted: 06/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Kuruma shrimp, a major farmed shrimp species in the world, includes two cryptic or sibling species, Form I (Marsupenaeus japonicus) and Form II (Marsupenaeus pulchricaudatus). Due to the lack of genomic resources, little is known about the molecular mechanisms associated with immune defense and hypoxia tolerance. Here, we sequenced the transcriptomes of two closely related Marsupenaeus species and compared genomic divergence. This study obtained 77049 and 84561 unigenes with N50 values of 1281bp and 1244bp for M. japonicus and M. pulchricaudatus, respectively, and 5036 pairs of putative orthologs were identified between two Marsupenaeus species. Estimation of Ka/Ks ratios indicated that 165 orthologous genes may be under positive selection (Ka/Ks > 0.5), including 49 pairs with a Ka/Ks ratio >1. According to the peak of synonymous rates, the divergence time between M. japonicus and M. pulchricaudatus was about 0.26-0.69 Mya. These positively selected orthologous genes related to the immune process mainly comprised single VWC domain protein, legumain, ras-related C3 botulinum, caspase, C-type lectin and were enriched in functions related to immune (Toll-like receptor and PI3K-Akt signaling) and hypoxia signaling (HIF-1 signaling and VEGF signaling). In this study, dozens of caspase-like unigenes were screened from two Marsupenaeus transcriptomes. Among these, the PjCaspase orthologous gene was subjected to positive selection (Ka/Ks = 1.22), which had different secondary and three-dimensional structure prediction. Based on the single copy caspase gene, eight populations of Marsupenaeus species were divided into two phylogeographic lineages from the East and South China. We characterized the transcriptomes of the two Marsupenaeus species and obtained several key orthologs associated with immune defense and hypoxia tolerance, which provides new insights into the immunity and genetic divergence of the two varieties. Moreover, this study will facilitate further comparative genomic studies of the two varieties.
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- Panpan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China.
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Li L, Zhai Y, Luo X, Zhang Y, Shi Q. Comparative transcriptome analyses reveal genes related to pigmentation in the petals of red and white Primula vulgaris cultivars. PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 25:1029-1041. [PMID: 31404227 PMCID: PMC6656844 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-019-00664-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2018] [Revised: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Primula vulgaris is an important ornamental plant species with various flower color. To explore the molecular mechanism of its color formation, comparative transcriptome analyses of the petals in red and white cultivars was performed. A total of 4451 differentially expressed genes were identified and annotated into 128 metabolic pathways. Candidate genes FLS, F3'H, DFR, ANS and AOMT in the anthocyanin pathway were expressed significantly higher in the red cultivar than the white and may be responsible for the red coloration. In the red petals, a putative transcription factors bHLH (c52273.graph_c0) was up-regulated about 14-fold, while a R2R3-MYB unigene (c36140.graph_c0) was identified as a repressor involved in anthocyanin regulation and was significantly down-regulated. In addition, the anatomy analyses and pigments composition in the red and white petals were also analyzed. The papillae on the adaxial epidermis of the red petals of P. vulgaris display a triangle-shapes, in contrast with a spherical shape for the white petals. Although flavonoids were detected in both cultivars, anthocyanins could only be identified in the red cultivar. Gossypetin and peonidin/rosinin were the most abundant pigments in red petals. This study shed light on the genetic and biochemistry mechanisms underlying the flower coloration in Primula.
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- Long Li
- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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- Beijing Key Lab of Digital Plant, No. 11 Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100097 China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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Lu R, Xu W, Lu Q, Li P, Losh J, Hina F, Li E, Qiu Y. Generation and classification of transcriptomes in two Croomia species and molecular evolution of CYC/TB1 genes in Stemonaceae. PLANT DIVERSITY 2018; 40:253-264. [PMID: 30740572 PMCID: PMC6317509 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2018.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Revised: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The genus Croomia (Stemonaceae) is an excellent model for studying the evolution of the Eastern Asia (EA)-Eastern North America (ENA) floristic disjunction and the genetic mechanisms of floral zygomorphy formation. In addition to the presence of both actinomorphic and zygomorphic flowers within the genus, species are disjunctively distributed between EA and ENA. However, due to the limited availability of genomic resources, few studies of Croomia have examined these questions. In this study, we sequenced the floral and leaf transcriptomes of the zygomorphic flowered C roomia heterosepala and the actinomorphic flowered Croomia japonica, and used comparative genomic approaches to investigate the transcriptome evolution of the two closely related species. The sequencing and de novo assembly of transcriptomes from flowers of C. heterosepala (ChFlower), flowers of C. japonica (CjFlower), and leaves of C. japonica (CjLeaf) yielded 57,193, 62,131 and 64,448 unigenes, respectively. In addition, estimation of Ka/Ks ratios for 11,566 potential orthologous groups between ChFlower and CjFlower revealed that only six pairs had Ka/Ks ratios significantly greater than 1 and are likely under positive selection. A total of 429 single copy nuclear genes (SCNGs) and 21,460 expression sequence tags-simple sequence repeats (EST-SSRs) were identified in this study. Specifically, we identified seven CYC/TB1-like genes from Stemonaceae. Phylogenetic and molecular evolution analyses indicated that these CYC/TB1-like genes formed a monophyletic clade (SteTBL1) and were subject to strong purifying selection. The shifts of floral symmetry in Stemonaceae do not appear to be correlated with TBL copy number.
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- Ruisen Lu
- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
- Corresponding author.
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Wang Y, Jiang W, Ye W, Fu C, Gitzendanner MA, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Qiu Y. Evolutionary insights from comparative transcriptome and transcriptome-wide coalescence analyses in Tetrastigma hemsleyanum. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 18:208. [PMID: 30249188 PMCID: PMC6154912 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-018-1429-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Tetrastigma hemsleyanum is of great medicinal importance and used as a model system to address the evolutionary history of warm-temperate evergreen (WTE) forest biomes in East Asia over Neogene time scales. However, further studies on the neutral and adaptive divergence processes of T. hemsleyanum are currently impeded by a lack of genomic resources. In this study, we de novo assembled and annotated a reference transcriptome for two cpDNA lineages (Central-South-East vs. Southwest) of T. hemsleyanum. We further used comparative genomic and multilocus coalescent approaches to investigate the tempo and mode of lineage diversification in T. hemsleyanum. RESULTS A total of 52,838 and 65,197 unigenes with an N50 of 1,667 and 1,841 bp for Central-South-East (CSE) and Southwest (SW) lineages, respectively, were recovered, and 6,692 putative orthologs were identified between the two lineages. Estimation of Ka/Ks ratios for these orthologs revealed that ten genes had Ka/Ks values significantly greater than 0.5 (P < 0.05), whereas 2,099 (Ka/Ks < 0.5, P < 0.05) were inferred to be under purifying selection. Based on three bioinformatic strategies, we identified a total of 1,018 single-copy nuclear genes (SCNGs) from the orthologs. We successfully designed eight nuclear gene primer pairs with high intraspecific variation (e.g. hT = 0.923, πT = 1.68×10-3), when surveyed across a subset of T. hemsleyanum individuals. Concordant with the previous cpDNA data, the haplotype networks constructed for most nuclear gene loci clearly identified the two lineages. A multilocus coalescence analysis suggested that the separation between the two lineages appears to have occurred during the mid-Pliocene. Despite their ancient divergence, both lineages experienced expansion at rather localized scales and have continued to exchange genes at a low rate. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrated the utility of transcriptome sequencing as a basis for SCNG development in non-model species and the advantages of integrating multiple nuclear loci for phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies.
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- Yihan Wang
- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002 China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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Yang M, Han N, Li H, Meng L. Transcriptome Analysis and Microsatellite Markers Development of a Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herb Halenia elliptica D. Don (Gentianaceae). Evol Bioinform Online 2018; 14:1176934318790263. [PMID: 30083050 PMCID: PMC6073823 DOI: 10.1177/1176934318790263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Halenia elliptica is a popular Chinese medicinal herb that is used to treat jaundice disease and virus hepatitis, and its wild populations have been reduced significantly due to overharvesting recently. However, effective conservation could not be implemented because of the lack of genomic information and genetic markers. In this study, a de novo transcriptome of H elliptica was sequenced using the NGS Illumina, and 132 695 unigenes with the length >200 bp (base pairs) were obtained. Among them, a total of 32 109 unigenes were scanned to develop simple sequence repeats (SSRs). Based on NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) nonredundant database (Nr), these SSR sequences were annotated and assigned into gene ontology categories. In addition, we designed 126 pairs of SSR primers for polymerase chain reaction amplification, of which 12 pairs were identified to be polymorphic among 40 individuals from 8 populations. We then used the 12 polymorphic SSRs to construct a UPGMA dendrogram of the 40 individuals. In addition, a significant correlation between the genetic relationship and the geographic distance was found, suggesting a phylogeographic structure in H elliptica. Moreover, 2 of these SSRs were also successfully amplified in a related species Veratrilla baillonii, suggesting their cross-species transferability. Generally, the SSR markers with high polymorphisms identified in this study provide valuable genetic resources and represent an initial step for exploring the genetic diversity and population histories of H elliptica and its related species.
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- Mingliu Yang
- Key Laboratory of Yunnan for Biomass Energy and Biotechnology of Environment, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, School of Life Sciences Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Yunnan for Biomass Energy and Biotechnology of Environment, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, School of Life Sciences Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China
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- Economic and Management, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Yunnan for Biomass Energy and Biotechnology of Environment, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, School of Life Sciences Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China
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Examination of S-Locus Regulated Differential Expression in Primula vulgaris Floral Development. PLANTS 2018; 7:plants7020038. [PMID: 29724049 PMCID: PMC6027539 DOI: 10.3390/plants7020038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2018] [Revised: 03/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Recent findings on the molecular basis of heteromorphic self-incompatibility in Primula have shown that the controlling self-incompatibility (S)-locus is not allelic, but is instead a small hemizygous region of only a few genes in the thrum genotype. How these genes alter the development of floral morphology and the specificity of self-incompatibility is still not completely clear. In order to start to identify genes regulated by the S-locus and elucidate the large-scale biological processes affected, we used RNA-seq data from floral buds of heteromorphic P. vulgaris pin (long style, short anthers) and thrum (short style, long anthers) morphs at early and late developmental time points. Differential expression between the two morphs was assessed at both time points and Gene Ontology term analyses of these gene sets were conducted. Our findings suggest that the S-locus regulates a large number of genes outside its physical bounds and likely sets up a cascade of expression changes. Additionally, we found evidence to suggest that there may be a timing difference in pollen development between the morphs, with pin pollen development proceeding earlier than thrum pollen development. This finding provides insight into how morphological differences in pollen between the morphs may be established, but intriguingly, could also be related to the self-incompatibility phenotype.
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Yuan S, Zeng G, Zhang D. Development of microsatellite markers for Primula oreodoxa (Primulaceae), a distylous-homostylous species. APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES 2018; 6:e01150. [PMID: 30131892 PMCID: PMC5991559 DOI: 10.1002/aps3.1150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite markers were developed for a distylous-homostylous species, Primula oreodoxa (Primulaceae), to investigate the mating patterns and gene flow in the species. METHODS AND RESULTS Using RAD sequencing, 42,777 contigs were generated. A total of 1566 putative simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci were identified by MISA, and 1433 primer sets were designed. After initial screening of 107 SSR loci, 24 loci displayed polymorphism. The number of alleles per locus detected ranged from one to 11 in the sampled populations of P. oreodoxa. Levels of observed and expected heterozygosity for each locus ranged from 0 to 0.917 and 0 to 0.816, respectively. Fifteen and 13 of these loci could be successfully amplified in the two congeneric species P. obconica and P. heucherifolia, respectively. CONCLUSIONS The SSR markers developed here will be valuable for genetic analysis and elucidation of mating patterns in P. oreodoxa.
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- Shuai Yuan
- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable UtilizationSouth China Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesGuangzhou510650People’s Republic of China
- University of the Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing10049People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable UtilizationSouth China Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesGuangzhou510650People’s Republic of China
- University of the Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing10049People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable UtilizationSouth China Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesGuangzhou510650People’s Republic of China
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Hu Q, Wang Q, Meng Y, Tian H, Xiao H. Comparative transcriptome reveal the potential adaptive evolutionary genes in Andrias davidianus. Hereditas 2018; 155:18. [PMID: 29483849 PMCID: PMC5819198 DOI: 10.1186/s41065-018-0056-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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To search the evidence of molecular evolution mechanism for aquatic and cave habitat in Andrias davidianus, the evolution analysis was carried out among several species transcriptome data. The transcriptome data of Notophthalmus viridescens, Xenopus tropicalis, Cynops pyrrhogaster, Hynobius chinensis and A. davidianus were obtained from the Genbank and reassembled except Xenopus tropicalis. The BLAST search of transcriptome data obtained 1244 single-copy orthologous genes among five species. A phylogenetic tree showed A. davidianus to have the closest relationship to H. chinensis. Fourteen positively selected genes were detected in A. davidianus and N. vridescens group and fifteen in A. davidianus and H. chinensis group. Five genes were shared in the both groups which involved in the immune system, suggesting that A. davidianus adaptation to an aquatic and cave environment required rapid evolution of the immune system compared to N. viridescens and H. chinensis.
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- Qiaomu Hu
- 1Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430223 China
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- 1Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430223 China.,2College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434025 China
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- 1Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430223 China
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- 1Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430223 China
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- 1Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430223 China
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Duan D, Jia Y, Yang J, Li ZH. Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Male and Female Conelets and Development of Microsatellite Markers in Pinus bungeana, an Endemic Conifer in China. Genes (Basel) 2017; 8:genes8120393. [PMID: 29257091 PMCID: PMC5748711 DOI: 10.3390/genes8120393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2017] [Revised: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The sex determination in gymnosperms is still poorly characterized due to the lack of genomic/transcriptome resources and useful molecular genetic markers. To enhance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the determination of sexual recognition of reproductive structures in conifers, the transcriptome of male and female conelets were characterized in a Chinese endemic conifer species, Pinus bungeana Zucc. ex Endl. The 39.62 Gb high-throughput sequencing reads were obtained from two kinds of sexual conelets. After de novo assembly of the obtained reads, 85,305 unigenes were identified, 53,944 (63.23%) of which were annotated with public databases. A total of 12,073 differentially expressed genes were detected between the two types of sexes in P. bungeana, and 5766 (47.76%) of them were up-regulated in females. The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enriched analysis suggested that some of the genes were significantly associated with the sex determination process of P. bungeana, such as those involved in tryptophan metabolism, zeatin biosynthesis, and cysteine and methionine metabolism, and the phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathways. Meanwhile, some important plant hormone pathways (e.g., the gibberellin (GA) pathway, carotenoid biosynthesis, and brassinosteroid biosynthesis (BR) pathway) that affected sexual determination were also induced in P. bungeana. In addition, 8791 expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeats (EST-SSRs) from 7859 unigenes were detected in P. bungeana. The most abundant repeat types were dinucleotides (1926), followed by trinucleotides (1711). The dominant classes of the sequence repeat were A/T (4942) in mononucleotides and AT/AT (1283) in dinucleotides. Among these EST-SSRs, 84 pairs of primers were randomly selected for the characterization of potential molecular genetic markers. Finally, 19 polymorphic EST-SSR primers were characterized. We found low to moderate levels of genetic diversity (NA = 1.754; HO = 0.206; HE = 0.205) across natural populations of P. bungeana. The cluster analysis revealed two distinct genetic groups for the six populations that were sampled in this endemic species, which might be caused by the fragmentation of habitats and long-term geographic isolation among different populations. Taken together, this work provides important insights into the molecular mechanisms of sexual identity in the reproductive organs of P. bungeana. The molecular genetic resources that were identified in this study will also facilitate further studies in functional genomics and population genetics in the Pinus species.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China.
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Yuan S, Zeng G, Shi M, Zhang D. Development of EST-SSR markers for Primula ovalifolia (Primulaceae) by transcriptome sequencing. APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES 2017; 5:apps1700100. [PMID: 29299397 PMCID: PMC5749821 DOI: 10.3732/apps.1700100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 11/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite primers were developed for Primula ovalifolia, a member of Primula section Petiolares (Primulaceae), to study the population genetics and species delimitation in this section. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 4753 markers were successfully designated from 5139 putative simple sequence repeat loci. We isolated 38 expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat markers from 220 selected marker sites and tested polymorphism in three populations of P. ovalifolia, one of P. tardiflora, and one of P. epilosa. The number of alleles per locus ranged from one to 19, and the observed and expected levels of heterozygosity varied from 0 to 0.938 and 0 to 0.915, respectively. Most of the loci could be successfully cross-amplified in the two congeneric species. CONCLUSIONS These markers will be useful for further population genetic analysis and gene flow estimation of P. ovalifolia and its relatives.
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- Shuai Yuan
- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10049, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10049, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, People’s Republic of China
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Tao SQ, Cao B, Tian CM, Liang YM. Comparative transcriptome analysis and identification of candidate effectors in two related rust species (Gymnosporangium yamadae and Gymnosporangium asiaticum). BMC Genomics 2017; 18:651. [PMID: 28830353 PMCID: PMC5567642 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-4059-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Rust fungi constitute the largest group of plant fungal pathogens. However, a paucity of data, including genomic sequences, transcriptome sequences, and associated molecular markers, hinders the development of inhibitory compounds and prevents their analysis from an evolutionary perspective. Gymnosporangium yamadae and G. asiaticum are two closely related rust fungal species, which are ecologically and economically important pathogens that cause apple rust and pear rust, respectively, proved to be devastating to orchards. In this study, we investigated the transcriptomes of these two Gymnosporangium species during the telial stage of their lifecycles. The aim of this study was to understand the evolutionary patterns of these two related fungi and to identify genes that developed by selection. RESULTS The transcriptomes of G. yamadae and G. asiaticum were generated from a mixture of RNA from three biological replicates of each species. We obtained 49,318 and 54,742 transcripts, with N50 values of 1957 and 1664, for G. yamadae and G. asiaticum, respectively. We also identified a repertoire of candidate effectors and other gene families associated with pathogenicity. A total of 4947 pairs of putative orthologues between the two species were identified. Estimation of the non-synonymous/synonymous substitution rate ratios for these orthologues identified 116 pairs with Ka/Ks values greater than1 that are under positive selection and 170 pairs with Ka/Ks values of 1 that are under neutral selection, whereas the remaining 4661 genes are subjected to purifying selection. We estimate that the divergence time between the two species is approximately 5.2 Mya. CONCLUSION This study constitutes a de novo assembly and comparative analysis between the transcriptomes of the two rust species G. yamadae and G. asiaticum. The results identified several orthologous genes, and many expressed genes were identified by annotation. Our analysis of Ka/Ks ratios identified orthologous genes subjected to positive or purifying selection. An evolutionary analysis of these two species provided a relatively precise divergence time. Overall, the information obtained in this study increases the genetic resources available for research on the genetic diversity of the Gymnosporangium genus.
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- Si-Qi Tao
- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Museum of Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China.
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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Adaptive Evolution of Notopterygium incisum and Notopterygium franchetii, Two High-Alpine Herbal Species Endemic to China. Molecules 2017; 22:molecules22071158. [PMID: 28696392 PMCID: PMC6152189 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22071158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The extreme conditions (e.g., cold, low oxygen, and strong ultraviolet radiation) of the high mountains provide an ideal natural laboratory for studies on speciation and the adaptive evolution of organisms. Up to now, few genome/transcriptome-based studies have been carried out on how plants adapt to conditions at extremely high altitudes. Notopterygium incisum and Notopterygiumfranchetii (Notopterygium, Apiaceae) are two endangered high-alpine herbal plants endemic to China. To explore the molecular genetic mechanisms of adaptation to high altitudes, we performed high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to characterize the transcriptomes of the two species. In total, more than 130 million sequence reads, 81,446 and 63,153 unigenes with total lengths of 86,924,837 and 62,615,693 bp, were generated for the two herbal species, respectively. OrthoMCL analysis identified 6375 single-copy orthologous genes between N. incisum and N. franchetii. In total, 381 positively-selected candidate genes were identified for both plants by using estimations of the non-synonymous to synonymous substitution rate. At least 18 of these genes potentially participate in RNA splicing, DNA repair, glutathione metabolism and the plant–pathogen interaction pathway, which were further enriched in various functional gene categories possibly responsible for environment adaptation in high mountains. Meanwhile, we detected various transcription factors that regulated the material and energy metabolism in N. incisum and N. franchetii, which probably play vital roles in the tolerance to stress in surroundings. In addition, 60 primer pairs based on orthologous microsatellite-containing sequences between the both Notopterygium species were determined. Finally, 17 polymorphic microsatellite markers (SSR) were successfully characterized for the two endangered species. Based on these candidate orthologous and SSR markers, we detected that the adaptive evolution and species divergence of N. incisum and N. franchetii were significantly associated with the extremely heterogeneous environments and climatic oscillations in high-altitude areas. This work provides important insights into the molecular mechanisms of adaptation to high-altitudes in alpine herbal plants.
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Serrano-Serrano ML, Marcionetti A, Perret M, Salamin N. Transcriptomic resources for an endemic Neotropical plant lineage (Gesneriaceae). APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES 2017; 5:apps1600135. [PMID: 28439475 PMCID: PMC5400431 DOI: 10.3732/apps.1600135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2016] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Despite the extensive phenotypic variation that characterizes the Gesneriaceae family, there is a lack of genomic resources to investigate the molecular basis of their diversity. We developed and compared the transcriptomes for two species of the Neotropical lineage of the Gesneriaceae. METHODS AND RESULTS Illumina sequencing and de novo assembly of floral and leaf samples were used to generate multigene sequence data for Sinningia eumorpha and S. magnifica, two species endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. A total of 300 million reads were used to assemble the transcriptomes, with an average of 92,038 transcripts and 43,506 genes per species. The transcriptomes showed good quality metrics, with the presence of all eukaryotic core genes, and an equal representation of clusters of orthologous groups (COG) classifications between species. The orthologous search produced 8602 groups, with 15-20% of them annotated using BLAST tools. DISCUSSION This study provides the first step toward a comprehensive multispecies transcriptome characterization of the Gesneriaceae family. These resources are the basis for comparative analyses in this species-rich Neotropical plant group; they will also allow the investigation of the evolutionary importance of multiple metabolic pathways and phenotypic diversity, as well as developmental programs in these nonmodel species.
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- Martha L. Serrano-Serrano
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Laboratory of Plant Systematics and Biodiversity, University of Geneva, Chemin de l’Impératrice 1, 1292 Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Cohen JI. De novo Sequencing and Comparative Transcriptomics of Floral Development of the Distylous Species Lithospermum multiflorum. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1934. [PMID: 28066486 PMCID: PMC5179544 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Genes controlling the morphological, micromorphological, and physiological components of the breeding system distyly have been hypothesized, but many of the genes have not been investigated throughout development of the two floral morphs. To this end, the present study is an examination of comparative transcriptomes from three stages of development for the floral organs of the morphs of Lithospermum multiflorum. Transcriptomes of flowers of the two morphs, from various stages of development, were sequenced using an Illumina HiSeq 2000. The floral transcriptome of L. multiflorum was assembled, and differential gene expression (DE) was identified between morphs, throughout development. Additionally, Gene Ontology (GO) terms for DE genes were determined. Fewer genes were DE early in development compared to later in development, with more genes highly expressed in the gynoecium of the SS morph and the corolla and androecium of the LS morph. A reciprocal pattern was observed later in development, and many more genes were DE during this latter stage. During early development, DE genes appear to be involved in growth and floral development, and during later development, DE genes seem to affect physiological functions. Interestingly, many genes involved in response to stress were identified as DE between morphs.
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Ji R, Wang Y, Cheng Y, Zhang M, Zhang HB, Zhu L, Fang J, Zhu-Salzman K. Transcriptome Analysis of Green Peach Aphid ( Myzus persicae): Insight into Developmental Regulation and Inter-Species Divergence. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1562. [PMID: 27812361 PMCID: PMC5072348 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) and pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) are two phylogenetically closely related agricultural pests. While pea aphid is restricted to Fabaceae, green peach aphid feeds on hundreds of plant species from more than 40 families. Transcriptome comparison could shed light on the genetic factors underlying the difference in host range between the two species. Furthermore, a large scale study contrasting gene expression between immature nymphs and fully developed adult aphids would fill a previous knowledge gap. Here, we obtained transcriptomic sequences of green peach aphid nymphs and adults, respectively, using Illumina sequencing technology. A total of 2244 genes were found to be differentially expressed between the two developmental stages, many of which were associated with detoxification, hormone production, cuticle formation, metabolism, food digestion, and absorption. When searched against publically available pea aphid mRNA sequences, 13,752 unigenes were found to have no homologous counterparts. Interestingly, many of these unigenes that could be annotated in other databases were involved in the "xenobiotics biodegradation and metabolism" pathway, suggesting the two aphids differ in their adaptation to secondary metabolites of host plants. Conversely, 3989 orthologous gene pairs between the two species were subjected to calculations of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions, and 148 of the genes potentially evolved in response to positive selection. Some of these genes were predicted to be associated with insect-plant interactions. Our study has revealed certain molecular events related to aphid development, and provided some insight into biological variations in two aphid species, possibly as a result of host plant adaptation.
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- Rui Ji
- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural SciencesNanjing, China
- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX, USA
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- Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Agricultural Entomology, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang UniversityHangzhou, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX, USA
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural SciencesNanjing, China
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX, USA
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Zhou Q, Guo JJ, He CT, Shen C, Huang YY, Chen JX, Guo JH, Yuan JG, Yang ZY. Comparative Transcriptome Analysis between Low- and High-Cadmium-Accumulating Genotypes of Pakchoi (Brassica chinensis L.) in Response to Cadmium Stress. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:6485-94. [PMID: 27228483 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b06326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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To reduce cadmium (Cd) pollution of food chains, screening and breeding of low-Cd-accumulating cultivars are the focus of much study. Two previously identified genotypes, a low-Cd-accumulating genotype (LAJK) and a high-Cd-accumulating genotype (HAJS) of pakchoi (Brassica chinesis L.), were stressed by Cd (12.5 μM) for 0 h (T0), 3 h (T3) and 24 h (T24). By comparative transcriptome analysis for root tissue, 3005 and 4343 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in LAJK at T3 (vs T0) and T24 (vs T3), respectively, whereas 8677 and 5081 DEGs were detected in HAJS. Gene expression pattern analysis suggested a delay of Cd responded transcriptional changes in LAJK compared to HAJS. DEG functional enrichments proposed genotype-specific biological processes coped with Cd stress. Cell wall biosynthesis and glutathione (GSH) metabolism were found to involve in Cd resistance in HAJS, whereas DNA repair and abscisic acid (ABA) signal transduction pathways played important roles in LAJK. Furthermore, the genes participating in Cd efflux such as PDR8 were overexpressed in LAJK, whereas those responsible for Cd transport such as YSL1 were more enhanced in HAJS, exhibiting different Cd transport processes between two genotypes. These novel findings should be useful for molecular assisted screening and breeding of low-Cd-accumulating genotypes for pakchoi.
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- Qian Zhou
- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University , Xingang Xi Road 135, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Liu YJ, Zhang CY, Hao G, Ge XJ, Yan HF. Characterization of Novel Microsatellite Loci for Primula poissonii (Primulaceae) Using High-Throughput Sequencing Technology. Molecules 2016; 21:molecules21050536. [PMID: 27171065 PMCID: PMC6273113 DOI: 10.3390/molecules21050536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2016] [Revised: 04/16/2016] [Accepted: 04/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Primula poissonii (Primulaceae) is a perennial herb, widely distributed in the Hengduan Mountain region of Southwest China. In this study, Roche 454 pyrosequencing was used to isolate microsatellite markers. A total of 4528 unique sequences were identified from 68,070 unique reads. Of these, eighty-seven microsatellite loci were screened for utility using two criteria: successful PCR amplification and variation of these loci within three wild P. poissonii populations. Twenty loci were successfully amplified and exhibited polymorphic alleles. The number of observed alleles ranged from 1 to 9 with an average of 3.5. The observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.087 to 1.000 and from 0.124 to 0.828, respectively. Among these SSR loci, only the P69 locus could not be cross-amplified successfully in two closely related species P. wilsonii and P. anisodora. The microsatellite loci developed in this study will be useful for studying genetic diversity and speciation events between P. poissonii and closely related Primula species.
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- Yun-Jiao Liu
- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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Lin Q, Luo W, Wan S, Gao Z. De Novo Transcriptome Analysis of Two Seahorse Species (Hippocampus erectus and H. mohnikei) and the Development of Molecular Markers for Population Genetics. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0154096. [PMID: 27128031 PMCID: PMC4851356 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Seahorse conservation has been performed utilizing various strategies for many decades, and the deeper understanding of genomic information is necessary to more efficiently protect the germplasm resources of seahorse species. However, little genetic information about seahorses currently exists in the public databases. In this study, high-throughput RNA sequencing for two seahorse species, Hippocampus erectus and H. mohnikei, was carried out, and de novo assembly generated 37,506 unigenes for H. erectus and 36,113 unigenes for H. mohnikei. Among them, 17,338 (46.23%) unigenes for H. erectus and 17,900 (49.57%) for H. mohnikei were successfully annotated based on the information available from the public databases. Through comparing the unigenes of two seahorse species, 7,802 candidate orthologous genes were identified and 5,268 genes among them could be annotated. In addition, gene ontology analysis of two species was similarly performed on biological processes, cellular components, and molecular functions. Twenty-four and twenty-one unigenes in H. erectus and H. mohnikei were annotated in the biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids pathways, and both seahorses lacked the Δ12 and Δ15 desaturases. Total of 8,992 and 9,116 SSR loci were obtained from H. erectus and H. mohnikei unigenes, respectively. Dozens of SSR were developed and then applied to assess the population genetic diversity, as well as cross-amplified in a related species, H. trimaculatus. The HO and HE values of the tested populations for H. erectus, H. mohnikei, and H. trimaculatus were medium. These resources would facilitate the conservation of the species through a better understanding of the genomics and comparative genome analysis within the Hippocampus genus.
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- Qiang Lin
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510275, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510275, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education/Key Lab. of Freshwater Animal Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Freshwater Aquaculture Collaborative Innovation Center of Hubei Province, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education/Key Lab. of Freshwater Animal Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Freshwater Aquaculture Collaborative Innovation Center of Hubei Province, Wuhan, 430070, China
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Zhao SY, Chen LY, Muchuku JK, Hu GW, Wang QF. Genetic Adaptation of Giant Lobelias (Lobelia aberdarica and Lobelia telekii) to Different Altitudes in East African Mountains. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:488. [PMID: 27148313 PMCID: PMC4828460 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Accepted: 03/25/2016] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The giant lobelias in East African mountains are good models for studying molecular mechanisms of adaptation to different altitudes. In this study, we generated RNA-seq data of a middle-altitude species Lobelia aberdarica and a high-altitude species L. telekii, followed by selective pressure estimation of their orthologous genes. Our aim was to explore the important genes potentially involved in adaptation to different altitudes. About 9.3 Gb of clean nucleotides, 167,929-170,534 unigenes with total lengths of 159,762,099-171,138,936 bp for each of the two species were generated. OrthoMCL method identified 3,049 1:1 orthologous genes (each species was represented by one ortholog). Estimations of non-synonymous to synonymous rate were performed using an approximate method and a maximum likelihood method in PAML. Eighty-five orthologous genes were under positive selection. At least 8 of these genes are possibly involved in DNA repair, response to DNA damage and temperature stimulus, and regulation of gene expression, which hints on how giant lobelias adapt to high altitudinal environment that characterized by cold, low oxygen, and strong ultraviolet radiation. The negatively selected genes are over-represented in Gene Ontology terms of hydrolase, macromolecular complex assembly among others. This study sheds light on understanding the molecular mechanism of adaptation to different altitudes, and provides genomic resources for further studies of giant lobelias.
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- Shu-Ying Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
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- Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
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Characterizing the transcriptome and molecular markers information for roach, Rutilus rutilus. J Genet 2016; 95:45-51. [PMID: 27019431 DOI: 10.1007/s12041-015-0597-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Rutilus rutilus (roach) is native to most of Europe and western Asia, and the Irtysh River basin in Sinkiang, northwest China is the marginal area of their natural distribution. The wide distribution and unique characteristic of this species makes it an ideal model for analysing ecological and comparative genomics. However, the limited genome sequences available for this species have hindered these investigations. Transcriptomes from the brains and livers of five individuals collected from the Irtysh River basin were sequenced using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. A collection of 132,289 unigenes for this species were obtained using a de novo assembly method based on nearly 120 million clean reads encompassing more than 14 Gb data. Approximately 37.5% (49,656), 27.1% (35,867) and 21.2% (27,987) of the transcriptome had homologues deposited in Nt, Nr and Swiss-Prot, respectively; 12.3% (16,328) were assigned to eukaryotic orthologous groups of proteins classifications, and 21.5% (28,429) harboured Interpro domains. On the basis of the assembled transcriptome, we detected 177,493 single-nuc leotide variation resident in 39.3% (52,029) of the sequences and 20.8% (27,497) of the sequences harbouring 36,639 simple sequence repeats. The identified molecular markers are a basis for further ecological analysis, and the transcriptome reported here allows for more extensive evolutionary analyses of the Cyprinidae, the most species-rich family of freshwater fishes.
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Zhang L, Wu W, Yan HF, Ge XJ. Phylotranscriptomic Analysis Based on Coalescence was Less Influenced by the Evolving Rates and the Number of Genes: A Case Study in Ericales. Evol Bioinform Online 2016; 11:81-91. [PMID: 26819541 PMCID: PMC4718149 DOI: 10.4137/ebo.s22448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2015] [Revised: 09/24/2015] [Accepted: 09/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Advances in high-throughput sequencing have generated a vast amount of transcriptomic data that are being increasingly used in phylogenetic reconstruction. However, processing the vast datasets for a huge number of genes and even identifying optimal analytical methodology are challenging. Through de novo sequenced and retrieved data from public databases, we identified 221 orthologous protein-coding genes to reconstruct the phylogeny of Ericales, an order characterized by rapid ancient radiation. Seven species representing different families in Ericales were used as in-groups. Both concatenation and coalescence methods yielded the same well-supported topology as previous studies, with only two nodes conflicting with previously reported relationships. The results revealed that a partitioning strategy could improve the traditional concatenation methodology. Rapidly evolving genes negatively affected the concatenation analysis, while slowly evolving genes slightly affected the coalescence analysis. The coalescence methods usually accommodated rate heterogeneity better and required fewer genes to yield well-supported topologies than the concatenation methods with both real and simulated data.
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- Lu Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Zhou T, Chen C, Wei Y, Chang Y, Bai G, Li Z, Kanwal N, Zhao G. Comparative Transcriptome and Chloroplast Genome Analyses of Two Related Dipteronia Species. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1512. [PMID: 27790228 PMCID: PMC5061820 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Dipteronia (order Sapindales) is an endangered genus endemic to China and has two living species, D.sinensis and D. dyeriana. The plants are closely related to the genus Acer, which is also classified in the order Sapindales. Evolutionary studies on Dipteronia have been hindered by the paucity of information on their genomes and plastids. Here, we used next generation sequencing to characterize the transcriptomes and complete chloroplast genomes of both Dipteronia species. A comparison of the transcriptomes of both species identified a total of 7814 orthologs. Estimation of selection pressures using Ka/Ks ratios showed that only 30 of 5435 orthologous pairs had a ratio significantly >1, i.e., showing positive selection. However, 4041 orthologs had a Ka/Ks < 0.5 (p < 0.05), suggesting that most genes had likely undergone purifying selection. Based on orthologous unigenes, 314 single copy nuclear genes (SCNGs) were identified. Through a combination of de novo and reference guided assembly, plastid genomes were obtained; that of D. sinensis was 157,080 bp and that of D. dyeriana was 157,071 bp. Both plastid genomes encoded 87 protein coding genes, 40 tRNAs, and 8 rRNAs; no significant differences were detected in the size, gene content, and organization of the two plastomes. We used the whole chloroplast genomes to determine the phylogeny of D. sinensis and D. dyeriana and confirmed that the two species were highly divergent. Overall, our study provides comprehensive transcriptomic and chloroplast genomic resources, which will be valuable for future evolutionary studies of Dipteronia.
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- Tao Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Centre for Conservation and Utilization of Botanical Resources, Xi'an Botanical Garden of Shaanxi ProvinceXi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest UniversityXi'an, China
- *Correspondence: Guifang Zhao
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Zhao YM, Zhou T, Li ZH, Zhao GF. Characterization of Global Transcriptome Using Illumina Paired-End Sequencing and Development of EST-SSR Markers in Two Species of Gynostemma (Cucurbitaceae). Molecules 2015; 20:21214-31. [PMID: 26633323 PMCID: PMC6332360 DOI: 10.3390/molecules201219758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Revised: 11/05/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Gynostemma pentaphyllum is an important medicinal herb of the Cucurbitaceae family, but limited genomic data have hindered genetic studies. In this study, transcriptomes of two closely-related Gynostemma species, Gynostemma cardiospermum and G. pentaphyllum, were sequenced using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. A total of 71,607 nonredundant unigenes were assembled. Of these unigenes, 60.45% (43,288) were annotated based on sequence similarity search with known proteins. A total of 11,059 unigenes were identified in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes Pathway (KEGG) database. A total of 3891 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were detected in 3526 nonredundant unigenes, 2596 primer pairs were designed and 360 of them were randomly selected for validation. Of these, 268 primer pairs yielded clear products among six G. pentaphyllum samples. Thirty polymorphic SSR markers were used to test polymorphism and transferability in Gynostemma. Finally, 15 SSR makers that amplified in all 12 Gynostemma species were used to assess genetic diversity. Our results generated a comprehensive sequence resource for Gynostemma research.
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- Yue-Mei Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 Taibai Bei Road, Xi'an 710069, China.
- College of Biopharmaceutical and Food Engineering, Shangluo University, Beixin Street, Shangluo 726000, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 Taibai Bei Road, Xi'an 710069, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 Taibai Bei Road, Xi'an 710069, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 Taibai Bei Road, Xi'an 710069, China.
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Christmas MJ, Biffin E, Lowe AJ. Transcriptome sequencing, annotation and polymorphism detection in the hop bush, Dodonaea viscosa. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:803. [PMID: 26474753 PMCID: PMC4609105 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1987-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Background The hop bush, Dodonaea viscosa, is a trans-oceanic species distributed oversix continents. It evolved in Australia where it is found over a wide range of habitat types and is an ecologically important species. Limited genomic resources are currently available for this species, thus our understanding of its evolutionary history and ecological adaptation is restricted. Here, we present a comprehensive transcriptome dataset for future genomic studies into this species. Methods We performed Illumina sequencing of cDNA prepared from leaf tissue collected from seven populations of D. viscosa ssp. angustissima and spatulata distributed along an environmental gradient in South Australia. Sequenced reads were assembled to provide a transcriptome resource. Contiguous sequences (contigs) were annotated using BLAST searches against the NCBI non-redundant database and gene ontology definitions were assigned. Single nucleotide polymorphisms were detected for the establishment of a genetic marker set. A comparison between the two subspecies was also carried out. Results Illumina sequencing returned 268,672,818 sequence reads, which were de novoassembled into 105,125 contigs. Contigs with significant BLAST alignments (E value < 1e-5)numbered at 44,191, with 38,311 of these having their most significant hits to sequences from land plant species. Gene Ontology terms were assigned to 28,440 contigs and KEGG analysis identified 146 pathways that the gene products from 5,070 contigs are potentially involved in. The subspecies comparison identified 8,494 fixed SNP differences across 3,979 contiguous sequences, indicating a level of genetic differentiation between them. Across all samples, 248,235 SNPs were detected. Conclusions We have established a significant genomic data resource for D. viscosa,providing a comprehensive transcriptomic reference. Genetic differences among morphologically distinct subspecies were found. A wide range of putative gene regions were identified along with a large set of variable SNP markers, providing a basis for studies into the evolution and ecological adaptation of D. viscosa. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1987-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Matthew J Christmas
- Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia.
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- Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia.
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- Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia.
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Tai Y, Wei C, Yang H, Zhang L, Chen Q, Deng W, Wei S, Zhang J, Fang C, Ho C, Wan X. Transcriptomic and phytochemical analysis of the biosynthesis of characteristic constituents in tea (Camellia sinensis) compared with oil tea (Camellia oleifera). BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:190. [PMID: 26245644 PMCID: PMC4527363 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0574-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2015] [Accepted: 07/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Tea plants (Camellia sinensis) are used to produce one of the most important beverages worldwide. The nutritional value and healthful properties of tea are closely related to the large amounts of three major characteristic constituents including polyphenols (mainly catechins), theanine and caffeine. Although oil tea (Camellia oleifera) belongs to the genus Camellia, this plant lacks these three characteristic constituents. Comparative analysis of tea and oil tea via RNA-Seq would help uncover the genetic components underlying the biosynthesis of characteristic metabolites in tea. RESULTS We found that 3,787 and 3,359 bud genes, as well as 4,042 and 3,302 leaf genes, were up-regulated in tea and oil tea, respectively. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis revealed high levels of all types of catechins, theanine and caffeine in tea compared to those in oil tea. Activation of the genes involved in the biosynthesis of these characteristic compounds was detected by RNA-Seq analysis. In particular, genes encoding enzymes involved in flavonoid, theanine and caffeine pathways exhibited considerably different expression levels in tea compared to oil tea, which were also confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR). CONCLUSION We assembled 81,826 and 78,863 unigenes for tea and oil tea, respectively, based on their differences at the transcriptomic level. A potential connection was observed between gene expression and content variation for catechins, theanine and caffeine in tea and oil tea. The results demonstrated that the metabolism was activated during the accumulation of characteristic metabolites in tea, which were present at low levels in oil tea. From the molecular biological perspective, our comparison of the transcriptomes and related metabolites revealed differential regulatory mechanisms underlying secondary metabolic pathways in tea versus oil tea.
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- Yuling Tai
- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People's Republic of China.
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Wang L, Wang Z, Chen J, Liu C, Zhu W, Wang L, Meng L. De Novo Transcriptome Assembly and Development of Novel Microsatellite Markers for the Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herb, Veratrilla baillonii Franch (Gentianaceae). Evol Bioinform Online 2015; 11:39-45. [PMID: 26244005 PMCID: PMC4498661 DOI: 10.4137/ebo.s20942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Revised: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 06/08/2015] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Veratrilla baillonii Franch is an important Chinese medicinal herb for treating liver-related diseases, which has been over-collected in the recent decades. However, the effective conservation and related population genetic study has been hindered because of the lack of genome sequences and genetic markers in the natural population. We have conducted RNA-seq on V. baillonii. We performed de novo assembly of these data to characterize the V. baillonii transcriptome, resulting in 133,019 contigs with size >200 bp. These contigs were annotated using the NCBI nonredundant database and Gene Ontology (GO) terms. From these contigs, we developed novel microsatellite simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers, identifying a total of 40,885 SSRs. SSRs with repeat motifs of 1–4 bp (mono-, di-, tri-, and tetranucleotides) accounted for 99.8% of all SSRs, with mononucleotide repeats most common, followed by dinucleotide (16.2%) and trinucleotide repeats (14.7%). We selected 151 SSRs for experimental validation, of which 74 were confirmed by polymerase chain reaction. Fourteen SSRs were determined to be polymorphic by screening 40 individuals from six distant populations. The number of alleles per locus ranged from two to four, and the expected heterozygosity varied from 0.2637 to 0.8571, suggesting that these SSR markers are highly polymorphic and effective for further genetic analysis in the nature population. In addition, we explored the genetic structure of V. baillonii using five SSRs in four geographic populations and found that the identified genotypes were clustered into two phylogenetic clades: the Mekong River clade and Jinsha River clade. This result indicates that these two regions may harbor highly divergent genetic lineages and enriched genetic diversity. The de novo transcriptome sequences and new SSR markers discovered by this study provide an initial step for understanding the population genetics of V. baillonii, and a valuable resource for effective conservation management.
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- Lei Wang
- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Information Management, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Ecological Adaptive Evolution and Conservation on Animals-Plants in Southwest Mountain Ecosystem of University in Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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Li F, Cao D, Liu Y, Yang T, Wang G. Transcriptome Sequencing of Lima Bean (Phaseolus lunatus) to Identify Putative Positive Selection in Phaseolus and Legumes. Int J Mol Sci 2015; 16:15172-87. [PMID: 26151849 PMCID: PMC4519893 DOI: 10.3390/ijms160715172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2015] [Revised: 06/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The identification of genes under positive selection is a central goal of evolutionary biology. Many legume species, including Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean) and Phaseolus lunatus (lima bean), have important ecological and economic value. In this study, we sequenced and assembled the transcriptome of one Phaseolus species, lima bean. A comparison with the genomes of six other legume species, including the common bean, Medicago, lotus, soybean, chickpea, and pigeonpea, revealed 15 and 4 orthologous groups with signatures of positive selection among the two Phaseolus species and among the seven legume species, respectively. Characterization of these positively selected genes using Non redundant (nr) annotation, gene ontology (GO) classification, GO term enrichment and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analyses revealed that these genes are mostly involved in thylakoids, photosynthesis and metabolism. This study identified genes that may be related to the divergence of the Phaseolus and legume species. These detected genes are particularly good candidates for subsequent functional studies.
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- Fengqi Li
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing100193, China.
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Transcriptome sequencing of three Ranunculus species (Ranunculaceae) reveals candidate genes in adaptation from terrestrial to aquatic habitats. Sci Rep 2015; 5:10098. [PMID: 25993393 PMCID: PMC4438715 DOI: 10.1038/srep10098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Adaptation to aquatic habitats is a formidable challenge for terrestrial angiosperms that has long intrigued scientists. As part of a suite of work to explore the molecular mechanism of adaptation to aquatic habitats, we here sequenced the transcriptome of the submerged aquatic plant Ranunculus bungei, and two terrestrial relatives R. cantoniensis and R. brotherusii, followed by comparative evolutionary analyses to determine candidate genes for adaption to aquatic habitats. We obtained 126,037, 140,218 and 114,753 contigs for R. bungei, R. cantoniensis and R. brotherusii respectively. Bidirectional Best Hit method and OrthoMCL method identified 11,362 and 8,174 1:1:1 orthologous genes (one ortholog is represented in each of the three species) respectively. Non-synonymous/synonymous (dN/dS) analyses were performed with a maximum likelihood method and an approximate method for the three species-pairs. In total, 14 genes of R. bungei potentially involved in the adaptive transition from terrestrial to aquatic habitats were identified. Some of the homologs to these genes in model plants are involved in vacuole protein formation, regulating 'water transport process' and 'microtubule cytoskeleton organization'. Our study opens the door to understand the molecular mechanism of plant adaptation from terrestrial to aquatic habitats.
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Yan X, Zhang X, Lu M, He Y, An H. De novo sequencing analysis of the Rosa roxburghii fruit transcriptome reveals putative ascorbate biosynthetic genes and EST-SSR markers. Gene 2015; 561:54-62. [PMID: 25701597 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.02.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Revised: 01/15/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Rosa roxburghii Tratt. is a well-known ornamental rose species native to China. In addition, the fruits of this species are valued for their nutritional and medicinal characteristics, especially their high ascorbic acid (AsA) levels. Nevertheless, AsA biosynthesis in R. roxburghii fruit has not been explored in detail because of a lack of genomic resources for this species. High-throughput transcriptomic sequencing generating large volumes of transcript sequence data can aid in gene discovery and molecular marker development. In this study, we generated more than 53 million clean reads using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. De novo assembly yielded 106,590 unigenes, with an average length of 343 bp. On the basis of sequence similarity to known proteins, 9301 and 2393 unigenes were classified into Gene Ontology and Clusters of Orthologous Group categories, respectively. There were 7480 unigenes assigned to 124 pathways in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genome pathway database. BLASTx searches identified 498 unique putative transcripts encoding various transcription factors, some known to regulate fruit development. qRT-PCR validated the expressions of most of the genes encoding the main enzymes involved in ascorbate biosynthesis. In addition, 9131 potential simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci were identified among the unigenes. One hundred and two primer pairs were synthesized and 71 pairs produced an amplification product during initial screening. Among the amplified products, 30 were polymorphic in the 16 R. roxburghii germplasms tested. Our study was the first to produce a large volume of transcriptome data from R. roxburghii. The resulting sequence collection is a valuable resource for gene discovery and marker-assisted selective breeding in this rose species.
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- Xiuqin Yan
- Guizhou Engineering Research Center for Fruit Crops, Agricultural College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, PR China
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- Guizhou Engineering Research Center for Fruit Crops, Agricultural College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, PR China
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- Guizhou Engineering Research Center for Fruit Crops, Agricultural College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, PR China
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- Guizhou Tongjitang Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Guiyang 550025, PR China
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- Guizhou Engineering Research Center for Fruit Crops, Agricultural College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, PR China.
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Mu X, Hou G, Song H, Xu P, Luo D, Gu D, Xu M, Luo J, Zhang J, Hu Y. Transcriptome analysis between invasive Pomacea canaliculata and indigenous Cipangopaludina cahayensis reveals genomic divergence and diagnostic microsatellite/SSR markers. BMC Genet 2015; 16:12. [PMID: 25888264 PMCID: PMC4328836 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0175-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pomacea canaliculata is an important invasive species worldwide. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms behind species displacement, adaptational abilities, and pesticide resistance, partly because of the lack of genomic information that is available for this species. Here, the transcriptome sequences for the invasive golden apple snail P. canaliculata and the native mudsnail Cipangopaludina cahayensis were obtained by next-generation-sequencing and used to compare genomic divergence and identify molecular markers. RESULTS More than 46 million high quality sequencing reads were generated from P. canaliculata and C. cahayensis using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. Our analysis indicated that 11,312 unigenes from P. canaliculata and C. cahayensis showed significant similarities to known proteins families, among which a total of 4,320 specific protein families were identified. KEGG pathway enrichment was analyzed for the unique unigenes with 17 pathways (p-value < 10(-5)) in P. canaliculata relating predominantly to lysosomes and vitamin digestion and absorption, and with 12 identified in C. cahayensis, including cancer and toxoplasmosis pathways, respectively. Our analysis also indicated that the comparatively high number of P450 genes in the P. canaliculata transcriptome may be associated with the pesticide resistance in this species. Additionally, 16,717 simple sequence repeats derived from expressed sequence tags (EST-SSRs) were identified from the 14,722 unigenes in P. canaliculata and 100 of them were examined by PCR, revealing a species-specific molecular marker that could distinguish between the morphologically similar P. canaliculata and C. cahayensis snails. CONCLUSIONS Here, we present the genomic resources of P. canaliculata and C. cahayensis. Differentially expressed genes in the transcriptome of P. canaliculata compared with C. cahayensis corresponded to critical metabolic pathways, and genes specifically related to environmental stress response were detected. The CYP4 family of P450 cytochromes that may be important factors in pesticide metabolism in P. canaliculata was identified. Overall, these findings will provide valuable genetic data for the further characterization of the molecular mechanisms that support the invasive and adaptive abilities of P. canaliculata.
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- Xidong Mu
- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical&Subtropical Fishery Resource Application&Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
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- Center for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, 100141, China.
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical&Subtropical Fishery Resource Application&Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
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- Center for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, 100141, China.
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical&Subtropical Fishery Resource Application&Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical&Subtropical Fishery Resource Application&Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical&Subtropical Fishery Resource Application&Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical&Subtropical Fishery Resource Application&Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
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- Department of Ecology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510642, China.
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical&Subtropical Fishery Resource Application&Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
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Nowak MD, Russo G, Schlapbach R, Huu CN, Lenhard M, Conti E. The draft genome of Primula veris yields insights into the molecular basis of heterostyly. Genome Biol 2015; 16:12. [PMID: 25651398 PMCID: PMC4305239 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-014-0567-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background The flowering plant Primula veris is a common spring blooming perennial that is widely cultivated throughout Europe. This species is an established model system in the study of the genetics, evolution, and ecology of heterostylous floral polymorphisms. Despite the long history of research focused on this and related species, the continued development of this system has been restricted due the absence of genomic and transcriptomic resources. Results We present here a de novo draft genome assembly of P. veris covering 301.8 Mb, or approximately 63% of the estimated 479.22 Mb genome, with an N50 contig size of 9.5 Kb, an N50 scaffold size of 164 Kb, and containing an estimated 19,507 genes. The results of a RADseq bulk segregant analysis allow for the confident identification of four genome scaffolds that are linked to the P. veris S-locus. RNAseq data from both P. veris and the closely related species P. vulgaris allow for the characterization of 113 candidate heterostyly genes that show significant floral morph-specific differential expression. One candidate gene of particular interest is a duplicated GLOBOSA homolog that may be unique to Primula (PveGLO2), and is completely silenced in L-morph flowers. Conclusions The P. veris genome represents the first genome assembled from a heterostylous species, and thus provides an immensely important resource for future studies focused on the evolution and genetic dissection of heterostyly. As the first genome assembled from the Primulaceae, the P. veris genome will also facilitate the expanded application of phylogenomic methods in this diverse family and the eudicots as a whole. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13059-014-0567-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Xia EH, Jiang JJ, Huang H, Zhang LP, Zhang HB, Gao LZ. Transcriptome analysis of the oil-rich tea plant, Camellia oleifera, reveals candidate genes related to lipid metabolism. PLoS One 2014; 9:e104150. [PMID: 25136805 PMCID: PMC4138098 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 07/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Rapidly driven by the need for developing sustainable sources of nutritionally important fatty acids and the rising concerns about environmental impacts after using fossil oil, oil-plants have received increasing awareness nowadays. As an important oil-rich plant in China, Camellia oleifera has played a vital role in providing nutritional applications, biofuel productions and chemical feedstocks. However, the lack of C. oleifera genome sequences and little genetic information have largely hampered the urgent needs for efficient utilization of the abundant germplasms towards modern breeding efforts of this woody oil-plant. Results Here, using the 454 GS-FLX sequencing platform, we generated approximately 600,000 RNA-Seq reads from four tissues of C. oleifera. These reads were trimmed and assembled into 104,842 non-redundant putative transcripts with a total length of ∼38.9 Mb, representing more than 218-fold of all the C. oleifera sequences currently deposited in the GenBank (as of March 2014). Based on the BLAST similarity searches, nearly 42.6% transcripts could be annotated with known genes, conserved domains, or Gene Ontology (GO) terms. Comparisons with the cultivated tea tree, C. sinensis, identified 3,022 pairs of orthologs, of which 211 exhibited the evidence under positive selection. Pathway analysis detected the majority of genes potentially related to lipid metabolism. Evolutionary analysis of omega-6 fatty acid desaturase (FAD2) genes among 20 oil-plants unexpectedly suggests that a parallel evolution may occur between C. oleifera and Olea oleifera. Additionally, more than 2,300 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and 20,200 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were detected in the C. oleifera transcriptome. Conclusions The generated transcriptome represents a considerable increase in the number of sequences deposited in the public databases, providing an unprecedented opportunity to discover all related-genes associated with lipid metabolic pathway in C. oleifera. It will greatly enhance the generation of new varieties of C. oleifera with increased yields and high quality.
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- En-Hua Xia
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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