Project description:Heat-evolved Symbiodiniaceae can improve the physiological performances of their coral host under heat stress, but their gene expression responses to heat remained unknown. We explore here the transcriptomic basis of differential thermal stress responses between in hospite wild-type and heat-evolved Cladocopium proliferum strains and their coral host Platygyra daedealea.
2024-03-01 | GSE256269 | GEO
Project description:Microbiome transplant from Cladocopium C1acro to Breviolum minutum
| PRJNA912755 | ENA
Project description:Differential transcriptomic responses to heat of in hospite wild-type and heat-evolved Symbiodiniaceae
Project description:Transcriptional responses to heat stress were assayed in early life-history stages of 11 crosses between and amongst Acropora tenuis colonies originating from reefs along the Great Barrier Reef. We identified a single nucleotide polymorphism outlier (Fst=0.89) between populations in the unannotated gene Acropora25324, which exhibited constitutively higher gene expression in populations with dams originating from Curd reef, a far north, warm adapted inshore reef, suggesting an important role of this gene in adaptation to warmer environments. Further, juveniles exposed to heat and in symbiosis with heat-evolved Symbiodiniaceae displayed intermediate transcriptional responses between its progenitor taxa (Cladocopium goreaui) and the more stress tolerant Durusdinium trenchii, indicating that the development of heat tolerance acquisition is potentially a conserved evolutionary process in Symbiodiniaceae. These findings reveal the underlying mechanisms, and for the first time, their relative contribution, of coral responses to climate change and provide a foundation for optimizing conservation methods like assistant gene flow.
Project description:We tested the thermal tolerance of coral larvae with heat-evolved and wild-type strains and explored the molecular mechanisms for the differential thermal tolerance with gene expression patterns. This archive provides the raw data of the RNA sequencing.
Project description:Morphine causes microbial dysbiosis. In this study we focused on restoration of native microbiota in morphine treated mice and looked at the extent of restoration and immunological consequences of this restoration. Fecal transplant has been successfully used clinically, especially for treating C. difficile infection2528. With our expanding knowledge of the central role of microbiome in maintenance of host immune homeostasis17, fecal transplant is gaining importance as a therapy for indications resulting from microbial dysbiosis. There is a major difference between fecal transplant being used for the treatment of C. difficile infection and the conditions described in our studies. The former strategy is based on the argument that microbial dysbiosis caused by disproportionate overgrowth of a pathobiont can be out-competed by re-introducing the missing flora by way of a normal microbiome transplant. This strategy is independent of host factors and systemic effects on the microbial composition. Here, we show that microbial dysbiosis caused due to morphine can be reversed by transplantation of microbiota from the placebo-treated animals.
Project description:RNA-seq was performed on T. maritima wild type, three glucose evolved cultures, and three glycerol adapted cultures. Wild type and glucose evolved strains were grown on glucose minimal media and glycerol evolved cultures were grown on glycerol minimal media. All samples were harvested in exponential phase.
Project description:We exposed two groups of green frog tadpoles that differed in their microbiome composition to heat stress or control conditions. We subsequently used RNAseq to profile gene expression in their gut to understand how the microbiome impacts host responses to heat.
Project description:Purpose: To identify the genome binding sites of Cren7 and Sso7D, and to determine whether binding patterns differ between wild type and an epigenetically evolved strain in which they are heritably hypomethylated. Because methylated residues were solvent facing, it was predicted that binding patterns would not change between the strains. Methods: Chromosomal fragments 300-500bp long were immunoprecipitated in triplicate using polyclonal antibody serum for Cren7 or Sso7D and sequenced using Illumina Hiseq. Results: Cren7 and Sso7D had distinct binding patterns. ChIPseq peak patterns had slight variation between wild type and the evolved strain, but not at genes whose expression was thought to be epigentically dependent. Conclusions: As predicted, neither binding location or binding affinity correlated with epigenetic expression patterns in the evolved strain.