title: Massively parallel pyrosequencing-based transcriptome analyses of small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus), a vector insect transmitting rice stripe virus (RSV).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus) is an important agricultural pest that not only damages rice plants by sap-sucking, but also acts as a vector that transmits rice stripe virus (RSV), which can cause even more serious yield loss. Despite being a model organism for studying entomology, population biology, plant protection, molecular interactions among plants, viruses and insects, only a few genomic sequences are available for this species. To investigate its transcriptome and determine the differences between viruliferous and naïve L. striatellus, we employed 454-FLX high-throughput pyrosequencing to generate EST databases of this insect.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We obtained 201,281 and 218,681 high-quality reads from viruliferous and naïve L. striatellus, respectively, with an average read length as 230 bp. These reads were assembled into contigs and two EST databases were generated. When all reads were combined, 16,885 contigs and 24,607 singletons (a total of 41,492 unigenes) were obtained, which represents a transcriptome of the insect. BlastX search against the NCBI-NR database revealed that only 6,873 (16.6%) of these unigenes have significant matches. Comparison of the distribution of GO classification among viruliferous, naïve, and combined EST databases indicated that these libraries are broadly representative of the L. striatellus transcriptomes. Functionally diverse transcripts from RSV, endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia and yeast-like symbiotes were identified, which reflects the possible lifestyles of these microbial symbionts that live in the cells of the host insect. Comparative genomic analysis revealed that L. striatellus encodes similar innate immunity regulatory systems as other insects, such as RNA interference, JAK/STAT and partial Imd cascades, which might be involved in defense against viral infection. In addition, we determined the differences in gene expression between vector and naïve samples, which generated a list of candidate genes that are potentially involved in the symbiosis of L. striatellus and RSV.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To our knowledge, the present study is the first description of a genomic project for L. striatellus. The identification of transcripts from RSV, Wolbachia, yeast-like symbiotes and genes abundantly expressed in viruliferous insect, provided a starting-point for investigating the molecular basis of symbiosis among these organisms.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Fujie
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hongyan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Huajun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Tong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yijun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Shengyue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Rongxiang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Xiaoying
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020451:Contig Mapping; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D017344:Genes, Insect / Q000235:genetics; D006430:Hemiptera / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology / Q000821:virology; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology / Q000821:virology; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D013559:Symbiosis; D029364:Tenuivirus; D020577:Wolbachia
chemical_list: D019476:Insect Proteins
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