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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2016

Sexually Dimorphic Gene Expression Associated with Growth and Reproduction of Tongue Sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis) Revealed by Brain Transcriptome Analysis.

Pingping Wang, Min Zheng, Jian Liu, Yongzhuang Liu, Jianguo Lu, Xiaowen Sun

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Pingping WangHeilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin 150070, China. wangpingping@hrfri.ac.cn.
Min ZhengHeilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin 150070, China. mzz0003@tigermail.auburn.edu.
Jian LiuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. jianliu@hit.edu.cn.
Yongzhuang LiuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. yongzhuang.liu@hit.edu.cn.
Jianguo LuHeilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin 150070, China. lujianguo@hrfri.ac.cn.
Xiaowen SunHeilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin 150070, China. sunxiaowen@hrfri.ac.cn.
Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences · CNHarbin Institute of Technology · CNAuburn University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the transcriptome of one- and two-year-old male and female brains of Cynoglossus semilaevis by high-throughput Illumina sequencing. A total of 77,066 transcripts, corresponding to 21,475 unigenes, were obtained with a N50 value of 4349 bp. Of these unigenes, 33 genes were found to have significant differential expression and potentially associated with growth, from which 18 genes were down-regulated and 12 genes were up-regulated in two-year-old males, most of these genes had no significant differences in expression among one-year-old males and females and two-year-old females. A similar analysis was conducted to look for genes associated with reproduction; 25 genes were identified, among them, five genes were found to be down regulated and 20 genes up regulated in two-year-old males, again, most of the genes had no significant expression differences among the other three. The performance of up regulated genes in Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis was significantly different between two-year-old males and females. Males had a high gene expression in genetic information processing, while female's highly expressed genes were mainly enriched on organismal systems. Our work identified a set of sex-biased genes potentially associated with growth and reproduction that might be the candidate factors affecting sexual dimorphism of tongue sole, laying the foundation to understand the complex process of sex determination of this economic valuable species.

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AnimalsBrainFemaleFlatfishesGene Expression ProfilingMaleSex CharacteristicsTranscriptomesexually dimorphictongue soletranscriptome analysis

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