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The developmental transcriptome atlas of the spoon worm Urechis unicinctus (Echiurida: Annelida)
- Title
- The developmental transcriptome atlas of the spoon worm Urechis unicinctus (Echiurida: Annelida)
- Authors
- Park, Chungoo; Han, Yong-Hee; Lee, Sung-Gwon; Ry, Kyoung-Bin; Oh, Jooseong; Kern, Elizabeth M. A.; Park, Joong-Ki; Cho, Sung-Jin
- Ewha Authors
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- SCOPUS Author ID
- 박중기
- Issue Date
- 2018
- Journal Title
- GIGASCIENCE
- ISSN
- 2047-217X
- Citation
- GIGASCIENCE vol. 7, no. 3
- Keywords
- Urechis unicinctus; Echiurida; developmental transcriptome; RNA-Seq; de novo assembly
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
Data Paper
- Abstract
- Background: Echiurida is one of the most intriguing major subgroups of annelida because, unlike most other annelids, echiurids lack metameric body segmentation as adults. For this reason, transcriptome analyses from various developmental stages of echiurid species can be of substantial value for understanding precise expression levels and the complex regulatory networks during early and larval development. Results: A total of 914 million raw RNA-Seq reads were produced from 14 developmental stages of Urechis unicinctus and were de novo assembled into contigs spanning 63,928,225 bp with an N50 length of 2700 bp. The resulting comprehensive transcriptome database of the early developmental stages of U. unicinctus consists of 20,305 representative functional protein-coding transcripts. Approximately 66% of unigenes were assigned to superphylum-level taxa, including Lophotrochozoa (40%). The completeness of the transcriptome assembly was assessed using benchmarking universal single-copy orthologs; 75.7% of the single-copy orthologs were presented in our transcriptome database. We observed 3 distinct patterns of global transcriptome profiles from 14 developmental stages and identified 12,705 genes that showed dynamic regulation patterns during the differentiation and maturation of U. unicinctus cells. Conclusions: We present the first large-scale developmental transcriptome dataset of U. unicinctus and provide a general overview of the dynamics of global gene expression changes during its early developmental stages. The analysis of time-course gene expression data is a first step toward understanding the complex developmental gene regulatory networks in U. unicinctus and will furnish a valuable resource for analyzing the functions of gene repertoires in various developmental phases.
- DOI
- 10.1093/gigascience/giy007
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