TY - JOUR
T1 - Transcriptome analysis of the scleractinian coral stylophora pistillata
AU - Karako-Lampert, Sarit
AU - Zoccola, Didier
AU - Salmon-Divon, Mali
AU - Katzenellenbogen, Mark
AU - Tambutté, Sylvie
AU - Bertucci, Anthony
AU - Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove
AU - Deleury, Emeline
AU - Allemand, Denis
AU - Levy, Oren
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Dominique Desgré for coral maintenance and to Dr. Tirza Doniger for assistance in analyzing the data. This study was conducted as part of the Centre Scientifique de Monaco Research Program, supported by the Government of the Principality of Monaco. We also would like to thank The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat (IUI) for the support in this research.
PY - 2014/2/13
Y1 - 2014/2/13
N2 - The principal architects of coral reefs are the scleractinian corals; these species are divided in two major clades referred to as "robust" and "complex" corals. Although the molecular diversity of the "complex" clade has received considerable attention, with several expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries and a complete genome sequence having been constructed, the "robust" corals have received far less attention, despite the fact that robust corals have been prominent focal points for ecological and physiological studies. Filling this gap affords important opportunities to extend these studies and to improve our understanding of the differences between the two major clades. Here, we present an EST library from Stylophora pistillata (Esper 1797) and systematically analyze the assembled transcripts compared to putative homologs from the complete proteomes of six well-characterized metazoans: Nematostella vectensis, Hydra magnipapillata , Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus , Ciona intestinalis and Homo sapiens. Furthermore, comparative analyses of the Stylophora pistillata ESTs were performed against several Cnidaria from the Scleractinia, Actiniaria and Hydrozoa, as well as against other stony corals separately. Functional characterization of S. pistillata transcripts into KOG/COG categories and further description of Wnt and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathways showed that the assembled EST library provides sufficient data and coverage. These features of this new library suggest considerable opportunities for extending our understanding of the molecular and physiological behavior of "robust" corals.
AB - The principal architects of coral reefs are the scleractinian corals; these species are divided in two major clades referred to as "robust" and "complex" corals. Although the molecular diversity of the "complex" clade has received considerable attention, with several expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries and a complete genome sequence having been constructed, the "robust" corals have received far less attention, despite the fact that robust corals have been prominent focal points for ecological and physiological studies. Filling this gap affords important opportunities to extend these studies and to improve our understanding of the differences between the two major clades. Here, we present an EST library from Stylophora pistillata (Esper 1797) and systematically analyze the assembled transcripts compared to putative homologs from the complete proteomes of six well-characterized metazoans: Nematostella vectensis, Hydra magnipapillata , Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus , Ciona intestinalis and Homo sapiens. Furthermore, comparative analyses of the Stylophora pistillata ESTs were performed against several Cnidaria from the Scleractinia, Actiniaria and Hydrozoa, as well as against other stony corals separately. Functional characterization of S. pistillata transcripts into KOG/COG categories and further description of Wnt and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathways showed that the assembled EST library provides sufficient data and coverage. These features of this new library suggest considerable opportunities for extending our understanding of the molecular and physiological behavior of "robust" corals.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0088615
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0088615
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C2 - 24551124
AN - SCOPUS:84895832496
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 9
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 2
M1 - e88615
ER -