Project description:The transcriptome of unfertilized eggs of Ciona intestinalis was determined with microarrays. To obtain gene expression profiles of unfertilized eggs, we took 14 biological replicates. For the first through fourth replicates, we also took a technical duplicate. Gene expression profiles of the 8-, 16-, 32-cell embryos were obtained with embryos from the third to fifth animals.
Project description:A genome decoded chordate Ciona intestinalis is one of the suitable animal for analyzing genetic controls in early embryogenesis and zygotically expressed genes are especially intensely studied. However maternally expressed genes are less studied than zygotic ones because of their huge numbers. These microarray experiments were carried out to screen rapidly degrading mRNA to identify crucial maternal mRNAs for Ciona embryogenesis in relatively a short period before their degradation. Two samples (unfertilized eggs vs 32-cell stage embryos), two biological replicates, dye Swap design
Project description:Recent whole-genome studies and in-depth expressed sequence tag (EST) analyses have identified most of the developmentally relevant genes in the urochordate, Ciona intestinalis. In this study, we made use of a large-scale oligo-DNA microarray to further investigate and identify genes with specific or correlated expression profiles. This large-scale oligo-DNA microarray for C. intestinalis should facilitate the understanding of global gene expression and gene networks during the development and ageing of a basal chordate. Keywords: gene expression, development, ageing, life cycle
Project description:To compare with new Ciona intestinalis microarray NimbleGen 135k, we peformed gene expression analysis of GPL14686. Total RNAs from common samples with a part of NimbleGen's analysis are used for this analysis. Ovary and Neural Complex from adult Ciona intestinalis, duplicate, 2 time points during spawning
