Abstract
Although the representative species of Sesarmidaes, mudflat crab Parasesarma pictum and P. affine, are primarily herbivorous crabs, very little information is available about these transcriptomes. To identify the key genes those are responsible for the digestion systems in these crabs, we investigated transcriptomic profiles of the hepatopancreas in P. pictum and P. affine. Hundreds of unigenes in P. pictum and P. affine were classified related to food digestion and absorption by blast annotation, and many of them were annotated as digestive enzymes that played key roles during food digestion process. Remarkably, we presented the first report that these two Parasesarma genus species had four types of alpha amylase genes and two types of EGs. This transcriptomic information about P. pictum and P. affine will be helpful in further study of crustacean biology and the molecular basis of the herbivorous diet in crabs.
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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 31702014), and Doctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Yancheng Teachers University to ZFW, and Open Foundation of Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils (grant number JKLBS2019006).
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CCS, LW and ZFW designed and conceived the experiment. ZFW, LW, DT and CCS performed the data analysis and draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Wang, Z., Tang, D., Shen, C. et al. Identification of Genes Involved in Digestion from Transcriptome of Parasesarma pictum and Parasesarma affine Hepatopancreas. Thalassas 38, 93–101 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-021-00296-2
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