Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2023, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (4): 146-154.doi: 10.11978/2022197CSTR: 32234.14.2022197

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Analysis of differential expressed genes from Charonia tritonis based on transcriptome sequencing

LIU Wenguang1(), ZHANG Gege1,2, CEN Xitong1,2, HE Maoxian1()   

  1. 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2022-09-20 Revised:2022-10-17 Online:2023-07-10 Published:2022-10-13
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(42176129); Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2022A1515010779)

Abstract:

The giant triton snail (Charonia tritonis), an endangered gastropod species of ecological and economic importance, is widely distributed in coral reef ecosystems of the Indo-West Pacific region and the tropical waters of the South China Sea. Research on molecular mechanisms is limited due to the lack of complete genomic data for this species. In the present work, transcriptome sequencing of foot muscle and mantle in C. tritonis were obtained by Illumina HiSeq sequencing platform, from which 7994 (3196 upregulated and 4798 downregulated) differentially expressed genes (DEGs) containing biomineralization sequences were identified. The top 20 GO terms in the molecular function category were considered to be related to biomineralization. In KEGG classifications, DEGs are primarily enriched in some pathways that may be involved in biomineralization. The results of qPCR showed that three of the eight genes examined are significantly up-regulated in the mantle. Our results improve the understanding of biomineralization in C. tritonis and provide fundamental transcriptome information to study other molecular mechanisms, such as reproduction.

Key words: Charonia tritonis, transcriptome, DEG