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Genome sequencing and transcriptome assembly of the parasitoid wasp Megaphragma amalphitanum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)
- Source :
- Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin. 72:30-32
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Allerton Press, 2017.
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Abstract
- Miniaturization of organisms is one of the most interesting evolutionary phenomena. This is a very common process and is widely represented in multicellular organisms: invertebrates (nemertean, nematodes, brachiopods, mollusks, arachnids, and insects), and vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, birds, and even mammals). Miniaturization leads to a significant reduction in the body size and simplification of some systems and organs without loss of species viability. Typically, this complex evolutionary modification is associated with occupation of the new ecological niches by the species. Reduction can affect not only the overall size of the organism but also the size of its cells as well as promote changes in the genome and the structure of specific genes. Parasitoid wasp Megaphragma amalphitanum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) is considered one of the smallest insects described to date. Therefore, it represents an attractive object for the studies of genetic aspects of body size reduction during evolution. Whole genome sequencing of M. amalphitanum and subsequent genome annotation and transcriptome assembly allow us to define the changes in the genetic material during organism miniaturization in relation to the larger Hymenoptera species. Our preliminary analysis revealed that genome size of M. amalphitanum is 346 Mb and transcriptome size is 27.5 Mb.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Whole genome sequencing
biology
Ecology
fungi
Genome project
biology.organism_classification
Genome
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Parasitoid wasp
Transcriptome
03 medical and health sciences
Multicellular organism
030104 developmental biology
Evolutionary biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Genome size
Organism
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1934791X and 00963925
- Volume :
- 72
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........97bafd8f87a36eab16585bedb1e17f2c