1. Introduction
Lernaea infection is a major disease problem encountered in carp culture in the Indian subcontinent and has been reported from Indian major carps Catla (Catla catla), Rohu (Labeo rohita), Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) , exotic carps silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and indigenous carps Labeo fimbriatus (Nandeesha et al., 1984, 1985; Tamuli and Shanbhouge, 1996; Zafar et al., 2001). The three Indian Major Carps viz., Catla, Rohu and Mrigal, contribute significantly to the Indian aquaculture production with an output of over two million tonnes (Kurva et al., 2013). Ectoparasitic diseases in freshwater fish farms of India result in an annual loss of 300 crores INR due to disease-induced …show more content…
cyprinacea, we employed the Illumina sequencing and predictive algorithms to explore similarities and differences in the transcriptomes of the free living and adult parasitic stage of L. cyprinacea. This study involves first de novo transcriptome analysis of L. cyprinacea. Bioinformatic analyses of the transcriptomic data allowed a detailed exploration of molecular changes associated with the transition from the free-living to the parasitic stage and a prediction of the roles that key transcripts play in the metabolic pathways linked to parasitism. Overall, this study provides the first insight into the molecular biology of the important parasite L. …show more content…
The highly represented groups among biological processes category were translation (2,716 unigenes), proteolysis (2,114 unigenes) and small GTPase mediated signal transduction (716 unigenes) processes. The molecular function classification showed a predominance of the ATP binding category (4,689 unigenes), followed by structural constituents of the ribosome (2,828 unigenes) and zinc ion binding (2,801 unigenes). Under the cellular component category genes coding for proteins integral to membrane (3,966 unigenes), ribosome (2,578 unigenes) and nucleus (2,058 unigenes) were observed to be highly
Lernaea infection is a major disease problem encountered in carp culture in the Indian subcontinent and has been reported from Indian major carps Catla (Catla catla), Rohu (Labeo rohita), Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) , exotic carps silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and indigenous carps Labeo fimbriatus (Nandeesha et al., 1984, 1985; Tamuli and Shanbhouge, 1996; Zafar et al., 2001). The three Indian Major Carps viz., Catla, Rohu and Mrigal, contribute significantly to the Indian aquaculture production with an output of over two million tonnes (Kurva et al., 2013). Ectoparasitic diseases in freshwater fish farms of India result in an annual loss of 300 crores INR due to disease-induced …show more content…
cyprinacea, we employed the Illumina sequencing and predictive algorithms to explore similarities and differences in the transcriptomes of the free living and adult parasitic stage of L. cyprinacea. This study involves first de novo transcriptome analysis of L. cyprinacea. Bioinformatic analyses of the transcriptomic data allowed a detailed exploration of molecular changes associated with the transition from the free-living to the parasitic stage and a prediction of the roles that key transcripts play in the metabolic pathways linked to parasitism. Overall, this study provides the first insight into the molecular biology of the important parasite L. …show more content…
The highly represented groups among biological processes category were translation (2,716 unigenes), proteolysis (2,114 unigenes) and small GTPase mediated signal transduction (716 unigenes) processes. The molecular function classification showed a predominance of the ATP binding category (4,689 unigenes), followed by structural constituents of the ribosome (2,828 unigenes) and zinc ion binding (2,801 unigenes). Under the cellular component category genes coding for proteins integral to membrane (3,966 unigenes), ribosome (2,578 unigenes) and nucleus (2,058 unigenes) were observed to be highly