Project description:Analysis of the effect of CLL development on differentation and gene expression of splenic monocytes. C57BL/6 mice were transplanted with murine CLL cells from Eµ-TCL1 mice and after 6 weeks total RNA was isolated from splenic monocytes from leukemic mice and matched WT controls.
Project description:mRNA profiles of Treg, CD4+, CD8+, CD19+ splenic cells from 8-week-old Foxp3 YFP/cre mice injected with control (WT) or leukemic (TCL1) extracellular vesicles (EV) were analyzed in triplicate.
Project description:mRNA profiles of Treg, CD4+, CD8+, CD19+ splenic cells from 8-week-old Foxp3 YFP/cre mice incubated with control (WT) or leukemic (TCL1) extracellular vesicles (EV) were analyzed in triplicate.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.
