title: Transcriptome analysis of extant cotton progenitors revealed tetraploidization and identified genome-specific single nucleotide polymorphism in diploid and allotetraploid cotton.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The most widely cultivated cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L., AD-genome) is derived from tetraploidization between A- and D-genome species. G. arboreum L. (A-genome) and G. raimondii Ulbr. (D-genome) are two of closely-related extant progenitors. Gene expression studies in allotetraploid cotton are complicated by the homoeologous loci of A- and D-genome origins. To develop genomic resources for gene expression and cotton breeding, we sequenced and assembled expressed sequence tags (ESTs) derived from G. arboreum and G. raimondii.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Roche/454 FLX sequencing technology was employed to sequence normalized cDNA libraries prepared from leaves, roots, bolls, ovules, and fibers in G. arboreum and G. raimondii, respectively. Sequencing reads from two independent libraries in each species were combined to assemble high-quality EST contigs. The combined sequencing reads included 1,699,776 from A-genome and 1,464,815 from D-genome, which were clustered into 89,588 contigs in the A-genome and 65,542 contigs in the D-genome. These contigs represented ~80% of EST collections in Cotton Gene Index 11 (CGI11, March 2011). Compared to the D-genome transcript database, 27,537 and 10,452 contigs were unique transcripts in A and D genomes, respectively. Further analysis using self-blastn reduced the unigene contig number by 52% in A-genome and 57% in D-genome, suggesting that 50% or more of contigs are paralogs or isoforms within each species. The majority of EST contigs (73-81%) were conserved between A- and D-genomes, whereas 27% and 19% contigs were specific to A- and D-genomes, respectively. Using these ESTs, we generated a total of 75,754 genome-specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (gSNPs or GNPs) or homoeologous-specific SNPs (hSNPs) of 10,885 contigs or genes between A and D genomes, indicating a possibility of separating allelic expression for those genes in allotetraploid cotton.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Expressed genes are highly redundant within each diploid progenitor and between A and D progenitor species, suggesting that diploid progenitors in cotton are likely ancient tetraploids. This large set of A- and D-genome ESTs and GNPs will be valuable resources for genome annotation, gene expression, and crop improvement in allotetraploid cotton.
authors.forename: Xueying
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Gyoungju
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nah
authors.forename: Qingxin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Joshua A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Udall
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Stelly
authors.affiliation: Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology and Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. zjchen@austin.utexas.edu.
authors.forename: Z Jeffrey
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004171:Diploidy; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D063990:Gene Ontology; D018745:Genome, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D003368:Gossypium / Q000235:genetics*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics*; D011123:Polyploidy; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger
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