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AbstractBackgroundMacrobrachium rosenbergii, is one of a major freshwater prawn species cultured in Southeast Asia. White tail disease (WTD), caused byMacrobrachium rosenbergiinodavirus (MrNV), is a serious problem in farm cultivation and is responsible for up to 100% mortality in the post larvae stage. Molecular data on howM. rosenbergiipost-larvae launches an immune response to an infection withMrNV is not currently available. We therefore compared the whole transcriptomic sequence ofM. rosenbergiipost-larvae before and afterMrNV infection.ResultsTranscriptome forM. rosenbergiipost-larvae demonstrated high completeness (BUSCO Complete: 83.4%, fragmentation: 13%, missing:3.3%, duplication:16.2%; highest ExN50 value: 94%). The assembled transcriptome consists of 96,362 unigenes with N50of 1308 bp. The assembled transcriptome was successfully annotated against the NCBI non-redundant arthropod database (33.75%), UniProt database (26.73%), Gene Ontology (GO) (18.98%), Evolutionary Genealogy of Genes: Non-supervised Orthologous Groups (EggNOG) (20.88%), and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genome pathway (KEGG) (20.46%). GO annotations included immune system process, signaling, response to stimulus, and antioxidant activity. Differential abundance analysis using EdgeR showed 2413 significantly up-regulated genes and 3125 significantly down-regulated genes during the infection ofMrNV.ConclusionsThis study reported a highly complete transcriptome from the post-larvae stage of giant river prawn,M. rosenbergii.Differential abundant transcripts duringMrNV infection were identified and validated by qPCR, many of these differentially abundant transcripts as key players in antiviral immunity. These include known members of the innate immune response with the largest expression change occurring in theM. rosenbergiipost-larvae afterMrNV infection such as antiviral protein, C-type lectin, prophenol oxidase, caspase, ADP ribosylation factors, and dicer.
Funder
Strategic Wisdom and Research Institute, Srinakharinwirot University
Science Achievement Scholarship of Thailand
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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