New publication on sex-biased gene expression in Daphnia galeata
27.10.2016
Daphnia galeata is a species of freshwater crustacean that is often used as a model system in ecology. The species alternates between sexual and asexual reproduction and lacks sex chromosomes. In a new paper, Huylmans et al. sequenced the expressed genes of Daphnia galeata and assembled the first transcriptome of this species. The data were also used to identify genes that were expressed differently between males and females.
Reference:
Huylmans, A. K., A. López Ezquerra, J. Parsch, and M. Cordellier (2016)
De novo transcriptome assembly and sex-biased gene expression in the cyclical parthenogenetic Daphnia galeata.
Genome Biol. Evol. 8: 3120-3139.