Affiliation:
1. Institute of Insect Science, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310058 , China
2. State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-Products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University , Ningbo 315211 , China
Abstract
Abstract
In insects, sex chromosome differentiation often results in unequal gene dosages between sexes. Dosage compensation mechanisms evolve to balance gene expression, but the degree and mechanism of regulation often vary by insect species. In hemipteran species, the small brown planthopper (SBPH), Laodelphax striatellus, is an injurious crop pest, with a sex chromosome type XX in females and XO in males. This species offers the opportunity to study dosage compensation and sex-biased gene expression. In this study, we generated a chromosome-level genome of SBPH using Oxford Nanopore Technologies and high-throughput chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) technology. We also sequenced RNA-seq data from 16 tissue samples to annotate the genome and analyze gene dosage compensation. We finally obtained a 510.2 megabases (Mb) genome with 99.12% of the scaffolds anchored on 15 chromosomes (14 autosomes and 1 X chromosome) and annotated 16,160 protein-coding genes based on full-length cDNA sequencing data. Furthermore, we found complete dosage compensation in all L. striatellus somatic tissues, but lack of dosage compensation in gonad tissue testis. We also found that female-biased genes were significantly enriched on the X chromosome in all tissues, whereas male-biased genes in gonad tissues were enriched on autosomes. This study not only provides a high-quality genome assembly but also lays a foundation for a better understanding of the sexual regulatory network in hemipteran insects.
Funder
National key R & D plan in the 14th five year plan
Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Genetics,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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