title: Tissue-specific transcriptomics in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus.
abstract: Field crickets (family Gryllidae) frequently are used in studies of behavioral genetics, sexual selection, and sexual conflict, but there have been no studies of transcriptomic differences among different tissue types. We evaluated transcriptome variation among testis, accessory gland, and the remaining whole-body preparations from males of the field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus. Non-normalized cDNA libraries from each tissue were sequenced on the Roche 454 platform, and a master assembly was constructed using testis, accessory gland, and whole-body preparations. A total of 940,200 reads were assembled into 41,962 contigs, to which 36,856 singletons (reads not assembled into a contig) were added to provide a total of 78,818 sequences used in annotation analysis. A total of 59,072 sequences (75%) were unique to one of the three tissues. Testis tissue had the greatest proportion of tissue-specific sequences (62.6%), followed by general body (56.43%) and accessory gland tissue (44.16%). We tested the hypothesis that tissues expressing gene products expected to evolve rapidly as a result of sexual selection--testis and accessory gland--would yield a smaller proportion of BLASTx matches to homologous genes in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster compared with whole-body tissue. Uniquely expressed sequences in both testis and accessory gland showed a significantly lower rate of matching to annotated D. melanogaster genes compared with those from general body tissue. These results correspond with empirical evidence that genes expressed in testis and accessory gland tissue are rapidly evolving targets of selection.
authors: Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, United Kingdom.
authors: Nathan W
authors: NW
authors: Bailey
authors: Paris
authors: P
authors: Veltsos
authors: Yew-Foon
authors: YF
authors: Tan
authors: A Harvey
authors: AH
authors: Millar
authors: Michael G
authors: MG
authors: Ritchie
authors: Leigh W
authors: LW
authors: Simmons
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020451:Contig Mapping; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics; D015723:Gene Library; D049750:Genome, Insect; D006135:Gryllidae / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013737:Testis / Q000378:metabolism; D059467:Transcriptome
keywords: Teleogryllus oceanicus; field cricket; gryllid; reference transcriptome; tissue-specific transcriptome
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