Savard, Joël (2004). A genomic approach to the study of Tribolium castaneum genetics, development & evolution. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
During the last decade, Tribolium castaneum has become the insect of choice for comparative genetics and developmental studies outside of drosophilids. Until recently, most molecular studies have focused on the comparative analysis of early development with a focus on segmentation and homeotic genes. In order to acquire independent knowledge on the genetic basis of insect development, a genomic approach consisting of EST and BAC-ends sequencing projects has been initiated in Tribolium. The EST project resulted in the production of 2,246 random sequences representing 488 non-redundant EST contigs. Of those, 280 sequences were selected, along with 86 independently cloned putative transcription factors, and further characterized by in situ hybridization. Expression analysis led to the identification of at least 25 novel genes putatively involved in diverse aspects of Tribolium embryonic development such as segmentation, appendage development, neurogenesis, myogenesis and terminal patterning. Comparative evolutionary analysis of the EST sequences verified that Tribolium is a slow evolving species when compared to dipterans. As predicted by the neutral theory, the data also revealed that evolutionary rates are a composite measure of both gene and species specific rates. To date, the BAC-ends sequencing project resulted in the production of 8,640 sequences covering 2.9% of the Tribolium genome. A functional analysis of a subset of these BAC-end sequences (BES) allowed the identification of 486 putative ORFs. It is estimated that of the 53,000 BES to be produced, 6,900 ORFs will be found, comprising 18% of the genome. Random sequencing of ESTs and production of BES are shown to be powerful ways to identify new genes, to help mapping the Tribolium genome and to identify coding regions in genomic sequences.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-13499 | ||||||||
Date: | 2004 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Biology > Institute for Genetics | ||||||||
Subjects: | Life sciences | ||||||||
Date of oral exam: | 3 February 2004 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/1349 |
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