Project description:We investigated gene expression levels in Heliconius erato butterflies with divergent wing patterns across a 656KB genomic interval linked to the red color pattern wing polymorphism. This included comparison of expression between two H. erato color pattern populations (H. e. petiverana and a H.e. etylus x H. himera hybrid) across three sections of the forewing that differed in pigmentation (the basal, mid, and distal wing sections) and five different stages of pupal development (Day 1, 3, 5 pupae and ommochrome and melanin pigmentation stages). These results allowed us to determine whether certain genes in this interval were differentially expressed between the wing pattern elements, and, therefore, potentially responsible for adaptive color pattern variation in these butterflies.
2011-12-02 | GSE30221 | GEO
Project description:Genetics of color pattern polymorphism in an Anolis lizard
| PRJNA731327 | ENA
Project description:Identification of the responsible polymorphism for coat color dilution
Project description:We compared the genomic integrity of human P493 cells grown in vitro with those recovered from xenografts of P493 cells. Keywords: single nucleotide polymorphism, array comparative genomic hybridization
Project description:Cancer development is associated with multiple genetic alterations and genomic instability either at the chromosomal or base pair level is generally thought to underlie these changes. However, it is still unknown whether genetic instability is absolutely required for tumorigenesis. Here we investigated the genomic instability status of four cytogenetically stable diploid cell lines CAL51, SK-UT-1B, A204 and CH1. We applied high resolution 500K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array analysis and found that all the four cell lines have some sub-microscopic genomic copy number changes. Interestingly, there were many more sub-microscopic chromosome alterations in A204 and CH1 than in CAL51 and SK-UT-1B. Twenty-four-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to analyse a large number of metaphases from CAL51, SK-UT-1B and CH1 cells. The rate of de novo chromosome rearrangements was significantly higher in CH1 than CAL51 and SK-UT-1B. Although this increased rate did not lead to many clonal cytogenetically apparent chromosome alterations in CH1 cells, it is consistent with a first step towards chromosomal instability. It is more striking that both cell lines CAL51 and SK-UT-1B which have a similar de novo chromosomal change rate to that of normal lymphocytes were microsatellite instability positive by BAT-26 microsatellite analysis. This study further strengths the current concept that genomic instability is associated with tumor development. Keywords: DNA copy number changes
Project description:The genetic foundation of chicken tail feather color is not very well studied to date, though that of body feather color is extensively explored. In the present study, we used a synthetic chicken dwarf line (DW), which was originated from the hybrids between a black tail chicken breed, Rhode Island Red (RIR) and a white tail breed, Dwarf Layer (DL), to understand the genetic rules of the white/black tail color. The DW line still contain the individuals with black or white tails, even if the body feather are predominantly red, after more than ten generation of self-crossing and being selected for the body feather color. We firstly performed four crosses using the DW line chickens including black tail male to female, reciprocal crosses between the black and white, and white male to female to elucidate the inheritance pattern of the white/black tail. We found that (i) the white/black tail feather colors are independent of body feather color and (ii) the phenotype are autosomal simple trait and (iii) the white are dominant to the black in the DW lines. Furtherly, we performed a genome-wide association (GWA) analysis to determine the candidate genomic regions underlying the tail feather color by using black tail chickens from the RIR and DW chickens and white individuals from DW lines.