Project name: Acyrthosiphon pisum

Description: Bioinformatic prediction, deep sequencing of microRNA and expression analysis during phenotypic plasticity in the pea aphid acyrthosiphon pisumWe developed high throughput Solexa sequencing and bioinformatic analyses of the genome of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum in order to identify the first miRNAs from a hemipteran insect. By combining these methods we identified 155 miRNAs including 56 conserved and 99 new miRNAs. Moreover, we investigated the regulation of these miRNAs in different alternative morphs of the pea aphid by analysing the expression of miRNAs across the switch of reproduction mode.Overall design: deep sequencing of small RNAs from parthenogenetic Acyrthosiphon pisum

Data type: Transcriptome or Gene expression

Sample scope: Monoisolate

Relevance: Environmental

Release date: 2010-03-01

Last updated: 2010-01-29