Comparative transcriptome analysis of obligately asexual and cyclically sexual rotifers reveals genes with putative functions in sexual reproduction, dormancy, and asexual egg production

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hanson, Sara J ^a   Stelzer, Claus Peter ^b   Welch, David B Mark ^c   Logsdon, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential expression analysis; Evolution of sexual reproduction; Gametogenesis; Gene ontology analysis; Meiosis; Mixis induction; Resting eggs

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 20; HISTONE H2A; MESSENGER RNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; HISTONE;

ADINETA RICCIAE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; CDC20 GENE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; DORMANCY; EGG PRODUCTION; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ADINETA RICCIAE; BDELLOIDA; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; EUKARYOTA; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTONES; MEIOSIS; OVUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84879051202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-412     Document Type: Article

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