title: In-depth transcriptome analysis of the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii.
abstract: The red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii is a highly adaptable, tolerant, and fecund freshwater crayfish that inhabits a wide range of aquatic environments. It is an important crustacean model organism that is used in many research fields, including animal behavior, environmental stress and toxicity, and studies of viral infection. Despite its widespread use, knowledge of the crayfish genome is very limited and insufficient for meaningful research. This is the use of next-generation sequencing techniques to analyze the crayfish transcriptome. A total of 324.97 million raw reads of 100 base pairs were generated, and a total of 88,463 transcripts were assembled de novo using Trinity software, producing 55,278 non-redundant transcripts. Comparison of digital gene expression between four different tissues revealed differentially expressed genes, in which more overexpressed genes were found in the hepatopancreas than in other tissues, and more underexpressed genes were found in the testis and the ovary than in other tissues. Gene ontology (GO) and KEGG enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes revealed that metabolite- and immune-related pathway genes were enriched in the hepatopancreas, and DNA replication-related pathway genes were enriched in the ovary and the testis, which is consistent with the important role of the hepatopancreas in metabolism, immunity, and the stress response, and with that of the ovary and the testis in reproduction. It was also found that 14 vitellogenin transcripts were highly expressed specifically in the hepatopancreas, and 6 transcripts were highly expressed specifically in the ovary, but no vitellogenin transcripts were highly expressed in both the hepatopancreas and the ovary. These results provide new insight into the role of vitellogenin in crustaceans. In addition, 243,764 SNP sites and 43,205 microsatellite sequences were identified in the sequencing data. We believe that our results provide an important genome resource for the crayfish.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China; Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Huaishun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China; Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Yacheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China; Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Yuanchao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China.
authors.forename: Zenghong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shui
authors.affiliation: The Center for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Chunyan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: The Center for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: The Center for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiaowen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D060829:Arthropod Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003400:Astacoidea / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D063990:Gene Ontology; D043143:Hepatopancreas / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism; D010053:Ovary / Q000378:metabolism; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D013737:Testis / Q000378:metabolism; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D060829:Arthropod Proteins