@misc{10481/56656,
year = {2018},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/56656},
abstract = {Outbreaks of locust populations repeatedly devastate economies and ecosystems in large parts of the
world. The consequent behavioural shift from solitarious to gregarious and the concomitant changes in
the locusts’ biology are of relevant scientific interest. Yet, research on the main locust species has not
benefitted from recent advances in genomics. In this first RNA-Seq study on Schistocerca gregaria, we
report two transcriptomes, including many novel genes, as well as differential gene expression results.
In line with the large biological differences between solitarious and gregarious locusts, almost half
of the transcripts are differentially expressed between their central nervous systems. Most of these
transcripts are over-expressed in the gregarious locusts, suggesting positive correlations between
the levels of activity at the population, individual, tissue and gene expression levels. We group these
differentially expressed transcripts by gene function and highlight those that are most likely to be
associated with locusts’ phase change either in a species-specific or general manner. Finally, we discuss
our findings in the context of population-level and physiological events leading to gregariousness.},
organization = {M. Bakkali wishes to thank the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología for the for the Ramón y Cajal fellowship
and for the BFU2010-16438 grant that supported both this research and the FPI studentship to Rubén Martín
Blázquez. We thank Mrs. Pernille Lavgesen for revision of the English language writing of this manuscript. We
also thank the editor for the valuable comments on the manuscript.},
publisher = {Nature Research (part of Springer Nature)},
title = {RNA-Seq reveals large quantitative differences between the transcriptomes of outbreak and non-outbreak locusts},
author = {Bakkali, Mohammed and Martín-Blázquez, Rubén},
}