Project description:The aim of the project was to identify differently expressed genes in eggs of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) characterized by different quality. In this way it was expected to identify genes possibly being a molecular indicator of egg quality in this species, which was never studied to date. For the study microarray analysis of over 26 thousand genes in 16 egg batches was performed. Additionally, for each egg batch biological quality was determined, what allowed to compare the gene expression profile with overall egg quality (divided into two groups representing ‘high’ and ‘low’ egg quality). The analysis allowed to identify 39 differently expressed genes between the two groups representing ‘high’ and ‘low’ egg quality. From those genes, expression level of 7 were verified by real-time qPCR which confirmed significant difference in expression in 5 of them.
Project description:We aimed at obtaining a reference transcriptome for the European seabass. We characterized by Illumina paired-ends RNA-seq the D. labrax transcriptome for two targeted organs, using a diversity of conditions, animal stages and genotypes to warranty the widest variety of reconstructed transcripts. The brain (including pineal gland and pituitary) and liver were chosen as they are complementary and at a crossroads of many key neuroendocrine, metabolic and behavioral regulations. Dicentrarchus labrax_2 targeted organs (liver and brain) with two technical replicates each (using two different fragment sizes) half a GAIIX run total. We used two flow cells per organ and each was corresponding to a different fragment size. The expected sizes were 350 and 500bp.
