Project description:As part of the EcoToxChip project, 49 distinct exposure studies were conducted on three lab model species (Japanese quail, fathead minnow, African clawed frog) and three ecologically relevant species (double crested cormorant, rainbow trout, northern leopard frog), at multiple life stages (embryo, adult), exposed to eight chemicals of environmental concern (ethinyl estradiol-EE2, hexabromocyclododecane-HBCD, lead-Pb, selenomethionine-SeMe, 17β trenbolone-TB, chlorpyrifos-CPF, fluoxetine-FLX, and benzo [a] pyrene-BaP. Whole transcriptome analyses were conducted on these samples resulting in a rich RNA seq dataset covering various species, life stages and chemicals, which is one of the largest purposeful complications of RNA seq data within ecotoxicology. Recently, a unified bioinformatics platform of relevance to ecotoxicology, EcoOmicsAnalyst and ExpressAnalyst, was developed to facilitate RNA Seq analysis of non-model species lacking a reference transcriptome. The platform uses the Seq2Fun algorithm to map RNA-seq reads from eukaryotic species to an ortholog database comprised of protein sequences from >600 eukaryotic species (EcoOmicsDB) with a translated search. The availability of these tools presents a unique opportunity to examine the EcoToxChip RNA Seq dataset for cross species comparisons. This work shows the potential of the EcoOmicsAnalyst and Seq2Fun platform to facilitate fast and simple analysis of RNA Seq datasets from non-model organisms with unannotated genomes and conduct comparative transcriptomic analysis across various species and life stages for cross-species extrapolation.
Project description:Production of secondary metabolites is controlled by a complicated regulatory network in eukaryotic cells. Several layers of regulators are involved in this process, ranging from pathway-specific regulation, to epigenetic control, to global regulation. A eukaryotic functionally conserved RNA-binding protein CsdA with a global regulator RsdA coordinates fungal secondary metabolism. Employing a genetic deletion approach and transcriptome analysis as well as metabolomics analysis, we revealed that CsdA and RsdA synergistically regulate fungal secondary metabolism globally.
2023-02-08 | MSV000091220 | GNPS
Project description:Eukaryotic non-reference transcriptome sequencing of Belamcanda chinensis
| PRJNA1137238 | ENA
Project description:TBEV transcriptome sequencing in Vero cells eukaryotic reference