Gametophytic transcriptomics of an early embryophyte (Blasia pusilla) and comparative landscape of gametophyte evolution

Gaurav Sablok, Xiaolan He, Mari Miranto, Elina Peltomaa, Jorge Flores, Robin Sleith, Kenneth Karol, Charles Delwiche, Neil Bell, Lars Paulin, Péter Poczai, Jaakko Hyvönen

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Abstract

Transcriptomics plays a central role in understanding the genetic underpinning of post-transcriptional regulation. In recent years, transcriptomics has not only acted as a model for unraveling post-transcriptional regulatory events but has also provided a basis for species-level comparative transcriptomics. In the absence of genomic data, transcriptomics not only allows for de-novo phylo-transcriptomics but also enables the detection of specific genes, which are specific to certain lineages or clades. We present the first reference gametophytic transcriptome of Blasia pusilla sequenced using Illumina Next-Seq with the aim of unravelling the gametophytic transcriptomics of an early embryophyte. We also highlight the role of transcriptomics in identifying early genes and possible phylogenetic pressures on ancestral gene evolution across embryophytes (land plants).
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jun 2019
MoE publication typeNot Eligible
EventInternational Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science: RNA Regulatory Network - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 26 Jun 201928 Jun 2019
Conference number: 3

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science
Abbreviated titleISFMS 2019
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period26/06/201928/06/2019

Fields of Science

  • 1182 Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology

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