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PARASITOLOGY
Volume 141, Issue 3, Pages 336-346Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182013001467
Keywords
parasitic mite; Acari; Dermanyssidae; 454 pyrosequencing; Next generation sequencing; de novo assembly; 28S rRNA; transcriptome analysis
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Although the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae (De Geer, 1778) is the major parasitic pest in poultry farming causing substantial economic losses every year, nucleotide data are rare in the public databases. Therefore, de novo sequencing covering the transcriptome of D. gallinae was carried out resulting in a dataset of 232097 singletons and 42130 contiguous sequences (contigs) which were subsequently clustered into 24140 isogroups consisting of 35788 isotigs. After removal of sequences possibly originating from bacteria or the chicken host, 267464 sequences (231657 singletons, 56 contigs and 35751 isotigs) remained, of which 10 center dot 3% showed homology to proteins derived from other organisms. The most significant Blast top-hit species was the mite Metaseiulus occidentalis followed by the tick Ixodes scapularis. To gain functional knowledge of D. gallinae transcripts, sequences were mapped to Gene Ontology terms, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genomes (KEGG) pathways and parsed to InterProScan. The transcriptome dataset provides new insights in general mite genetics and lays a foundation for future studies on stage-specific transcriptomics as well as genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic explorations and might provide new perspectives to control this parasitic mite by identifying possible drug targets or vaccine candidates. It is also worth noting that in different tested species of the class Arachnida no 28S rRNA was detectable in the rRNA profile, indicating that 28S rRNA might consists of two separate, hydrogen-bonded fragments, whose (heat-induced) disruption may led to co-migration with 18S rRNA.
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