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Series GSE103939 Query DataSets for GSE103939
Status Public on Dec 11, 2018
Title DNA methylation profiling of Daphnia species.
Organisms Daphnia pulex; Daphnia magna
Experiment type Methylation profiling by high throughput sequencing
Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary To profile the Daphnia species methylome and to achieve a better understanding of the level of variations in the methylome of Daphnia species, we performed whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBSeq) of adult Daphnia magna Bham2 strain and Daphnia pulex Eloise Butler strain (EB45 and EB31 strains). We also analysed the correlation between gene expression and methylation in the two species, using data generated in this study and RNA-seq data from Orsini, et al. 2016. We found that methylation percentage across the genome of Daphnia spp. follows a bimodal distribution. Furthermore, CpG methylation in Daphnia predominantly occurs at coding regions. Although methylation levels significantly decrease towards the 3’ end of a gene with a significant drop in methylation levels from one exon to the neighbouring intron, there is a clear spike in relative methylation levels between exon and intron boundaries, which may be linked to regulation of splicing. We further demonstrate that DNA methylation in Daphnia is responsive to intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
We also compared the methylation and gene expression correlations found in Daphnia to publicly available dataset from two other invertebrate species (Apis mellifera and Nasonia vitripennis) and two vertebrate species (Homo sapiens and Mus musculus). We observed that similar to other invertebrates, Daphnia’s genome is sparsely methylated at a lower level and the methylation is predominantly focused at gene body while in vertebrate species the genome is heavily methylated (global methylation). Although the level and distribution of methylation across CpG sites is different between vertebrates and invertebrates it is possible that methylation density at coding regions has the same function between vertebrates and invertebrates. We demonstrate evolutionary conservation of a positive correlation between high methylation density at coding regions and gene expression across vertebrates and invertebrates, leading to potentially ensuring continuous high expression of genes required throughout the life in both vertebrates and invertebrates.
 
Overall design Examination of DNA methylation in two different species of Daphnia (Daphnia magna bham2 and Daphnia pulex EB strains)
Correlation analysis between levels of gene expression and DNA methylation (Daphnia pulex EB45).
 
Contributor(s) Kvist J, Gonçalves Athanásio C, Mirbahai L
Citation(s) 30060190
Submission date Sep 18, 2017
Last update date Jul 25, 2021
Contact name Jouni Antero Kvist
Organization name University of Helsinki
Department Research Program for Molecular Neurology
Lab Med­ical Neuro­gen­et­ics group
Street address Haartmaninkatu 8
City Helsinki
State/province Uusimaa
ZIP/Postal code 00014
Country Finland
 
Platforms (3)
GPL23821 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Daphnia magna)
GPL24021 Illumina NextSeq 500 (Daphnia pulex)
GPL24022 Illumina NextSeq 500 (Daphnia magna)
Samples (41)
GSM2786656 Ox_H4(52)
GSM2786657 Ox_H5(53)
GSM2786658 Ox_N1(55)
Relations
BioProject PRJNA407732
SRA SRP117884

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE103939_GSF1035-F.expression.txt.gz 368.6 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE103939_RAW.tar 1.4 Gb (http)(custom) TAR (of TXT)
GSE103939_cpg.var.bham2.v2.vcf.gz 8.8 Mb (ftp)(http) VCF
GSE103939_cpg.var.pulex.v2.vcf.gz 19.3 Mb (ftp)(http) VCF
GSE103939_daphnia.magna.bham2.txt.gz 39.1 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE103939_daphnia.pulex.eb31.eb45.txt.gz 38.1 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE103939_expression_Bham2_Xinb3.txt.gz 1.6 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE103939_magna_snp_cgvIN.vcf.gz 81.6 Mb (ftp)(http) VCF
GSE103939_pulex_snp_cgvIN.vcf.gz 180.5 Mb (ftp)(http) VCF
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