2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysis of function of endosymbiotic bacteria, Wolbachia, genes on the genome of Monochamus alternatus.
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23657163
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Evolutionary biology
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| Research Institution | Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute |
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Principal Investigator |
AIKAWA Takuya 独立行政法人森林総合研究所, 東北支所, 主任研究員 (90343805)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ANBUTSU Hisashi 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, 生物プロセス研究部門, 研究員 (30392583)
KIKUCHI Taisei 宮崎大学, 医学部, 准教授 (20353659)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
NIKOH Naruo 放送大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (70364916)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | マツノマダラカミキリ / ボルバキア / 遺伝子水平転移 / 遺伝子発現 |
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| Research Abstract |
Monochamus alternatus is the longicorn beetle notorious as a vector of the pinewood nematode that causes the pine wilt disease. This insect caries many Wolbachia genes on an autosome. In this study, The RNA was extracted from each tissue of the insect, transcriptome analysis was conducted to clarify the presence or absence of the expression of Wolbachia genes. Several arrays that seem to be derived from Wolbachia genes in each tissue were detected, the number of the arrays was different between the tissues remarkably. This result suggests that some of the Wolbachia genes transfered to M.alternatus have expressed in the insect.
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