Project description:Ostreid Herpesvirus type 1 (OsHV-1) has become a serious infective agent of the Pacific oyster livestock worldwide. In particular, the OsHV-1 muVar subtype has been associated to severe mortality episodes concerning Crassostrea gigas in France and other regions of the world such as Australia and New Zealand. Factors triggering productive infections and virus interactions with susceptible and resistant bivalve hosts are not completely understood though some studies have been undertaken to explore the genes expressed in oysters after infection. We took advantage of an highly infected oyster sample to perform an in-vivo dual RNA-seq analysis. An extremely high sequencing coverage allowed us to explore in detail the Herpesvirus genome and transcriptome, and to identify viral-activated molecular pathways in Crassostrea gigas, thus expanding the current knowledge on the host-virus interactions.
Project description:Deep sequencing of mRNA from Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas Competent larvae of Crassostrea gigas were treated with epinephrine solution, and then sampled at different time intervals. For shell damage experiment, shell were broken and then tissues were sampled at different time intervals.
Project description:Deep sequencing of samples from different development stages, different adult organs and different stress treatments of Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas
Project description:To assess the diurnal gene expression in gills of oyster Crassotrea gigas, gills of 6 oysters were pooled and analyzed by RNa-seq every 4h for 52h (i.e. 13 sampling times). This procedure was executed simultaneously for control oysters fed with the non-harmful algae Heterocapsa triquetra (H.t condition), and for oysters fed with the harmful algae Alexandrium minutum (A.m condition) (L:D 9:15). Alexandrium minutum exposure led to a remodeling of the cycling transcriptome in gills of Crassostrea gigas.
