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received: 22 January 2016 accepted: 17 May 2016 Published: 06 June 2016

Identification of differentially expressed genes from multipotent epithelia at the onset of an asexual development Lorenzo Ricci1,*, Ankita Chaurasia1,*, Pascal Lapébie1, Philippe Dru1, Rebecca R. Helm2, Richard R. Copley1 & Stefano Tiozzo1 Organisms that have evolved alternative modes of reproduction, complementary to the sexual mode, are found across metazoans. The chordate Botryllus schlosseri is an emerging model for asexual development studies. Botryllus can rebuild its entire body from a portion of adult epithelia in a continuous and stereotyped process called blastogenesis. Anatomy and ontogenies of blastogenesis are well described, however molecular signatures triggering this developmental process are entirely unknown. We isolated tissues at the site of blastogenesis onset and from the same epithelia where this process is never triggered. We linearly amplified an ultra-low amount of mRNA (

Identification of differentially expressed genes from multipotent epithelia at the onset of an asexual development.

Organisms that have evolved alternative modes of reproduction, complementary to the sexual mode, are found across metazoans. The chordate Botryllus sc...
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