The genome of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a model for animal development, regeneration, immunity and lignocellulose digestion


Journal article


Kao, Lai, Stamataki, Rošić, Konstantinides, Jarvis, Di Donfrancesco, Pouchkina-Stancheva, Sémon, Grillo, Bruce, Kumar, Siwanowicz, Le, Lemire, Eisen, Extavour, Browne, Wolff, Averof, Patel, Sarkies, Pavlopoulos, Aboobaker
eLife, vol. 5, 2016, pp. e20062

View PDF Open access link
Cite

Cite

APA   Click to copy
Kao, Lai, Stamataki, Rošić, Konstantinides, Jarvis, … Aboobaker. (2016). The genome of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a model for animal development, regeneration, immunity and lignocellulose digestion. ELife, 5, e20062.


Chicago/Turabian   Click to copy
Kao, Lai, Stamataki, Rošić, Konstantinides, Jarvis, Di Donfrancesco, et al. “The Genome of the Crustacean Parhyale Hawaiensis, a Model for Animal Development, Regeneration, Immunity and Lignocellulose Digestion.” eLife 5 (2016): e20062.


MLA   Click to copy
Kao, et al. “The Genome of the Crustacean Parhyale Hawaiensis, a Model for Animal Development, Regeneration, Immunity and Lignocellulose Digestion.” ELife, vol. 5, 2016, p. e20062.


BibTeX   Click to copy

@article{kao2016a,
  title = {The genome of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a model for animal development, regeneration, immunity and lignocellulose digestion},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {eLife},
  pages = {e20062},
  volume = {5},
  author = {Kao and Lai and Stamataki and Rošić and Konstantinides and Jarvis and Donfrancesco, Di and Pouchkina-Stancheva and Sémon and Grillo and Bruce and Kumar and Siwanowicz and Le and Lemire and Eisen and Extavour and Browne and Wolff and Averof and Patel and Sarkies and Pavlopoulos and Aboobaker}
}

Abstract

The amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis is a blossoming model system for studies of developmental mechanisms and more recently regeneration. We have sequenced the genome allowing annotation of all key signaling pathways, transcription factors, and non-coding RNAs that will enhance ongoing functional studies. Parhyale is a member of the Malacostraca clade, which includes crustacean food crop species. We analysed the immunity related genes of Parhyale as an important comparative system for these species, where immunity related aquaculture problems have increased as farming has intensified. We also find that Parhyale and other species within Multicrustacea contain the enzyme sets necessary to perform lignocellulose digestion (“wood eating”), suggesting this ability may predate the diversification of this lineage. Our data provide an essential resource for further development of Parhyale as an experimental model. The first malacostracan genome will underpin ongoing comparative work in food crop species and research investigating lignocellulose as an energy source.





Follow this website


You need to create an Owlstown account to follow this website.


Sign up

Already an Owlstown member?

Log in