Project description:The Cyprinus carpio is one of the most important food fish with over hundred varieties in the world. It shows many morphological and genetic variations after selection breeding. It is also considered an alternative vertebrate fish model to zebrafish. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been suggested to have a crucial role in embryonic development. However, systemic research on the lncRNAs and miRNAs during embryonic development of C. carpio has not been reported yet. In this study, we investigated the miRNA, lncRNA and mRNA expression profiles during six main embryonic development stages (cleavage (2 hours post-fertilization hpf)), blastocyst (6 hpf), gastrulation (12 hpf), organ formation (20 hpf), hatching (64 hpf) and 1 day post-hatching). A total of 9,888,123 clean reads were obtained frommiRNA library. After filtering, 2886 miRNAs were identified. The results would open the way for future genetic, genomic, and evolutionary studies and enable better understanding of gene regulation during embryonic development of C. carpio.
Project description:Common carp is one of the main commercial fishes captured and cultured worldwide. Although common carp genome is not finished yet, this study provides a first large scale cloning and characterization of common carp miRNAs and their potential targets. These miRNAs add to the growing database of new miRNA and lay the foundation for further understanding of miRNA function in gene regulation of common carp. We constructed a small RNA library from 17 Cyprinus carpio samples.
