Studying Smaller and Neglected Organisms in Modern Evolutionary Venomics Implementing RNASeq (Transcriptomics) - a critical guide

dc.contributor.authorVon Reumont, Björn Marcus
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-18T09:54:12Z
dc.date.available2019-05-22T08:41:43Z
dc.date.available2022-11-18T09:54:12Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractVenoms are evolutionary key adaptations that species employ for defense, predation or competition. However, the processes and forces that drive the evolution of venoms and their toxin components remain in many aspects understudied. In particular, the venoms of many smaller, neglected (mostly invertebrate) organisms are not characterized in detail, especially with modern methods. For the majority of these taxa, even their biology is only vaguely known. Modern evolutionary venomics addresses the question of how venoms evolve by applying a plethora of -omics methods. These recently became so sensitive and enhanced that smaller, neglected organisms are now more easily accessible to comparatively study their venoms. More knowledge about these taxa is essential to better understand venom evolution in general. The methodological core pillars of integrative evolutionary venomics are genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics, which are complemented by functional morphology and the field of protein synthesis and activity tests. This manuscript focuses on transcriptomics (or RNASeq) as one toolbox to describe venom evolution in smaller, neglected taxa. It provides a hands-on guide that discusses a generalized RNASeq workflow, which can be adapted, accordingly, to respective projects. For neglected and small taxa, generalized recommendations are difficult to give and conclusions need to be made individually from case to case. In the context of evolutionary venomics, this overview highlights critical points, but also promises of RNASeq analyses. Methodologically, these concern the impact of read processing, possible improvements by perfoming multiple and merged assemblies, and adequate quantification of expressed transcripts. Readers are guided to reappraise their hypotheses on venom evolution in smaller organisms and how robustly these are testable with the current transcriptomics toolbox. The complementary approach that combines particular proteomics but also genomics with transcriptomics is discussed as well. As recently shown, comparative proteomics is, for example, most important in preventing false positive identifications of possible toxin transcripts. Finally, future directions in transcriptomics, such as applying 3rd generation sequencing strategies to overcome difficulties by short read assemblies, are briefly addressed.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-146593
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/9492
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-8880
dc.language.isoende_DE
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectevolutionary venomicsen
dc.subjecttranscriptomicsen
dc.subjectproteomicsen
dc.subjectpooled samplesen
dc.subjectassemblyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:630de_DE
dc.titleStudying Smaller and Neglected Organisms in Modern Evolutionary Venomics Implementing RNASeq (Transcriptomics) - a critical guideen
dc.typearticlede_DE
local.affiliationFB 09 - Agrarwissenschaften, Ökotrophologie und Umweltmanagementde_DE
local.opus.fachgebietAgrarwissenschaften und Umweltmanagementde_DE
local.opus.id14659
local.opus.instituteInstitute for Insect Biotechnologyde_DE
local.source.freetextToxins 10(7):292de_DE
local.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/toxins10070292

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