中华大仰蝽转录组学研究及SSR新标记开发

【目的】中华大仰蝽Notonecta chinensis为中国和日本冲绳分布的重要水生天敌昆虫,可用于蚊虫的生物防治。本研究旨在建立中华大仰蝽转录组数据库,挖掘其基因信息。【方法】采用高通量测序平台Illumina NextSeq500对中华大仰蝽进行转录组测序、de novo组装及生物信息学分析;利用MISA软件基于转录组unigenes数据进行SSR新分子标记筛选。毛细管电泳检测SSR多态性。【结果】总计获得34782282条clean reads(NCBI SRA数据库登录号:SRR13259254),组装成37801条unigenes,N50为913 bp。将unigenes与已知数据库比对进行基因功能注释,分别有36474,32470,27781,35079和5638条序列注释到nr,Swiss-Prot,GO,eggNOG和KEGG数据库。通过GO数据库注释,unigenes的功能可分为生物学过程、细胞组分和分子功能三大类,其中参与细胞、细胞部分及结合功能的unigenes比例较大。eggNOG数据库注释结果显示,37801条unigenes归到25个基因家族,注释到未知功能的最多。KEGG代谢通路富集分析显示,5638条unigenes注释到245个代谢通路,注释到核糖体的数目最多。此外,用MISA软件在转录组测序数据中的37801条unigenes中搜索到3124个SSR位点(占总unigenes的8.26%),发生频率为7.07%。通过PCR筛选出16个SSR位点。7个中华大仰蝽地理种群3个位点NcCF/NcCR,NcKF/NcKR和NcLF/NcLR的多态信息含量(PIC)分别为0.870,0.902和0.857,具高度多态性。【结论】本研究成功获得了中华大仰蝽转录组数据,为其基因功能分析提供了分子理论基础;SSR新标记的开发为中华大仰蝽遗传多样性分析、隐存种鉴定及基因图谱构建提供了更丰富的候选分子标记。     

中华大仰蝽转录组学研究及SSR新标记开发

[目的]中华大仰蝽Notonecta chinensis为中国和日本冲绳分布的重要水生天敌昆虫,可用于蚊虫的生物防治.本研究旨在建立中华大仰蝽转录组数据库,挖掘其基因信息.[方法]采用高通量测序平台Illumina NextSeq500对中华大仰蝽进行转录组测序、de novo组装及生物信息学分析;利用MISA软件基于...     

Common Contaminants in Next-Generation Sequencing That Hinder Discovery of Low-Abundance Microbes

Unbiased high-throughput sequencing of whole metagenome shotgun DNA libraries is a promising new approach to identifying microbes in clinical specimens, which, unlike other techniques, is not limited to known sequences. Unlike most sequencing applications, it is highly sensitive to laboratory contaminants as these will appear to originate from the clinical specimens. To assess the extent and diversity of sequence contaminants, we aligned 57 “1000 Genomes Project” sequencing runs from six centers against the four largest NCBI BLAST databases, detecting reads of diverse contaminant species in all runs and identifying the most common of these contaminant genera (Bradyrhizobium) in assembled genomes from the NCBI Genome database. Many of these microorganisms have been reported as contaminants of ultrapure water systems. Studies aiming to identify novel microbes in clinical specimens will greatly benefit from not only preventive measures such as extensive UV irradiation of water and cross-validation using independent techniques, but also a concerted effort to sequence the complete genomes of common contaminants so that they may be subtracted computationally.     

Production of full-length cDNA sequences by sequencing and analysis of expressed sequence tags from Schistosoma mansoni

The number of sequences generated by genome projects has increased exponentially, but gene characterization has not followed at the same rate. Sequencing and analysis of full-length cDNAs is an important step in gene characterization that has been used nowadays by several research groups. In this work, we have selected Schistosoma mansoni clones for full-length sequencing, using an algorithm that investigates the presence of the initial methionine in the parasite sequence based on the positions of alignment start between two sequences. BLAST searches to produce such alignments have been performed using parasite expressed sequence tags produced by Minas Gerais Genome Network against sequences from the database Eukaryotic Cluster of Orthologous Groups (KOG). This procedure has allowed the selection of clones representing 398 proteins which have not been deposited as S. mansoni complete CDS in any public database. Dedicated sequencing of 96 of such clones with reads from both 5' and 3' ends has been performed. These reads have been assembled using PHRAP, resulting in the production of 33 full-length sequences that represent novel S. mansoni proteins. These results shall contribute to construct a more complete view of the biology of this important parasite.     

Next-generation phylogenomics using a Target Restricted Assembly Method

Next-generation sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the field of phylogenetics by making available genome scale data for a fraction of the cost of traditional targeted sequencing. One challenge will be to make use of these genomic level data without necessarily resorting to full-scale genome assembly and annotation, which is often time and labor intensive. Here we describe a technique, the Target Restricted Assembly Method (TRAM), in which the typical process of genome assembly and annotation is in essence reversed. Protein sequences of phylogenetically useful genes from a species within the group of interest are used as targets in tblastn searches of a data set from a lane of Illumina reads for a related species. Resulting blast hits are then assembled locally into contigs and these contigs are then aligned against the reference “cDNA” sequence to remove portions of the sequences that include introns. We illustrate the Target Restricted Assembly Method using genomic scale datasets for 20 species of lice (Insecta: Psocodea) to produce a test phylogenetic data set of 10 nuclear protein coding gene sequences. Given the advantages of using DNA instead of RNA, this technique is very cost effective and feasible given current technologies.     

Transcriptome Sequencing of Mung Bean (Vigna radiate L.) Genes and the Identification of EST-SSR Markers

Mung bean (Vigna radiate (L.) Wilczek) is an important traditional food legume crop, with high economic and nutritional value. It is widely grown in China and other Asian countries. Despite its importance, genomic information is currently unavailable for this crop plant species or some of its close relatives in the Vigna genus. In this study, more than 103 million high quality cDNA sequence reads were obtained from mung bean using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. The processed reads were assembled into 48,693 unigenes with an average length of 874 bp. Of these unigenes, 25,820 (53.0%) and 23,235 (47.7%) showed significant similarity to proteins in the NCBI non-redundant protein and nucleotide sequence databases, respectively. Furthermore, 19,242 (39.5%) could be classified into gene ontology categories, 18,316 (37.6%) into Swiss-Prot categories and 10,918 (22.4%) into KOG database categories (E-value < 1.0E-5). A total of 6,585 (8.3%) were mapped onto 244 pathways using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genome (KEGG) pathway database. Among the unigenes, 10,053 sequences contained a unique simple sequence repeat (SSR), and 2,303 sequences contained more than one SSR together in the same expressed sequence tag (EST). A total of 13,134 EST-SSRs were identified as potential molecular markers, with mono-nucleotide A/T repeats being the most abundant motif class and G/C repeats being rare. In this SSR analysis, we found five main repeat motifs: AG/CT (30.8%), GAA/TTC (12.6%), AAAT/ATTT (6.8%), AAAAT/ATTTT (6.2%) and AAAAAT/ATTTTT (1.9%). A total of 200 SSR loci were randomly selected for validation by PCR amplification as EST-SSR markers. Of these, 66 marker primer pairs produced reproducible amplicons that were polymorphic among 31 mung bean accessions selected from diverse geographical locations. The large number of SSR-containing sequences found in this study will be valuable for the construction of a high-resolution genetic linkage maps, association or comparative mapping and genetic analyses of various Vigna species.