ABSTRACT: polyA+ RNA expression profiles of Drosophila melanogaster male and female brains after treatment with Sodium salicylate, Chlorpromazine, or Trifluoperazine2HCl
Project description:To explore some of the sex differential responses to drug treatment, we exposed 3 day post-eclosion virgin Drosophila melanogaster (genotype DGRP-900, FlyBase line ID: FBst0028261) to 3 FDA approved drugs and characterized transcript abundance among male and female brains after 24 hours of drug exposure. The 3 tested drugs are water-soluble group N (Nervous system) compounds according to The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system. Two (Chlorpromazine and Trifluoperazine2HCl) are primarily used to treat psychotic disorders, while the third (Sodium salicylate) is used as an analgesic and antipyretic. Following drug treatment, we dissected fly brains, isolated polyA+ RNA and performed high-throughput RNA-Seq analysis. We conducted quantification and statistical analysis of gene expression difference between tested drugs, sexes and their interaction.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of 3 day old virgin male and female adults comparing control male Drosophila melanogaster (MDM) versus male D sechellia (MDS) and comparing control female Drosophila melanogaster (FDM) versus female D sechellia (FDS). Goal was to determine why D sechellia is tolerant to octanoïc acid, the major toxic compound of Morinda citrifolia fruit
Project description:RNA was extracted from adult male and adult female Drosophila melanogaster with reversed sex-chromosome parent-of-origin (e.g. maternal-X/paternal-Y vs. paternal-X/maternal-Y)
Project description:Genes with sex-biased expression in adults experience unique evolutionary dynamics. It is unclear, however, whether the selection pressures responsible for these well documented patterns also act upon genes with sex-biased expression in other developmental stages. To examine this, we measured expression in male and female Drosophila melanogaster larvae. Drosophila melanogaster wandering third instar larvae were sexed using the visible gonad. RNA was isolated from three replicate samples of male and female larvae and one sample each of adult males and females. RNA was prepared following the manufacturer's instructions, using single color labelling. Each sample/replicate was hybridized to one sector of the Agilent 4 sector array (a total of two arrays were used), with the following design: Array 1 had one larval male sample, one larval female sample, one adult male sample, and one adult female sample; Array 2 had two larval male samples and two larval female samples.
Project description:High-throughput sequencing of Drosophila melanogaster small RNAs. total RNA, ~18-26nt RNAs isolated using PAGE, ligation to adapters requires 5' monophosphate and 3' OH Small RNAs were sequenced from D. melanogaster heads (male and female), body (male and female), S2 and Kc cells and different stages of embryo. Raw sequences were clipped by 3' linker sequences recognition, and select clipped sequences longer than 18 nt
Project description:Investigation of gene expression level changes in evolved polygamous and monogamous populations of Drosophila melanogaster. The populations investigated are described in Hollis et al. 2011. Populations with elevated mutation load do not benefit from the operation of sexual selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 1918-1926. A study using total RNA extracted from male and female virgin 4-day old Drosophila melanogaster and then transcriptionally profiled with 12x135k Nimblegen arrays. Also, transcriptional profiling of male and female heads from the same populations using Illumina RNA-Seq.
Project description:Genes with sex-biased expression in adults experience unique evolutionary dynamics. It is unclear, however, whether the selection pressures responsible for these well documented patterns also act upon genes with sex-biased expression in other developmental stages. To examine this, we measured expression in male and female Drosophila melanogaster larvae.
Project description:We sequenced mRNA from 24 single D. melanogaster embryos (12 male and 12 female) taken from 8 early embryonic timepoints to generate the first sex specific timecourse of gene expression in early Drosophila development
Project description:We designed this experiment to investigate the transcriptional changes in gonads as a result of sex transformation. Here we performed transcriptional profiling of the ovary transformed into testis from the tra loss of function (XX_tra_lof), testis transformed into ovary from the tra gain of function (XY_tra_gof) and ovary transformed into testis in dsxM gain of function (XX_DsxM_gof/lof) Drosophila melanogaster third instar larvae in biological quadruplicates. In addition, as controls we sequenced ovaries and testes from the female and male wildtype larvae respectively. We constructed polyA+ libraries of the gonads, cleaned off the fatbody and performed 50 bp, stranded single-end RNA-Seq.
