Junhui Liu, Qifeng Lu, Yong Wei, Xingqian Zhang, Li Lin, Qingqing Li
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Abstract
Body color is an important visual indicator of crustacean quality and plays a major role in consumer acceptability, perceived quality, and the market price of crustaceans. The freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) has two distinct phenotypic variations, characterized by dark blue and light yellow body colors. However, the underlying mechanisms regulating the body color of M. rosenbergii remain unclear. In this study, the composition of shell color parameters and pigment cells of raw and cooked dark blue and light yellow M. rosenbergii was investigated and the mechanisms associated with body color were elucidated by transcriptome analysis. The results showed significant differences in the raw shells of the dark blue and light yellow M. rosenbergii (L: 26.20 ± 0.53 vs. 29.25 ± 0.45; a: −0.88 ± 0.19 vs. 0.35 ± 0.18; b: 1.73 ± 0.20 vs. 3.46 ± 0.37; dE: 70.33 ± 0.53 vs. 67.34 ± 0.45, respectively, p = 0.000) as well as the cooked shells (L: 58.14 ± 0.81 vs. 55.78 ± 0.55; a: 19.30 ± 0.56 vs. 16.42 ± 0.40; b: 23.60 ± 0.66 vs. 20.30 ± 0.40, respectively, p < 0.05). Transcriptome differential gene analysis obtained 39.02 Gb of raw data and 158,026 unigenes. Comprehensive searches of the SwissProt, Nr, KEGG, Pfam, and KOG databases resulted in successful annotations of 23,902 (33 %), 40,436 (25.59 %), 32,015 (20.26 %), 26,139 (16.54 %), and 22,155 (14.02 %) proteins, respectively. By KEGG pathway analysis, numerous differentially expressed genes were related to pigmentation-related pathways (MAPK signaling pathway, Wnt signaling pathway, melanin production, tyrosine metabolism, and cell-cell communication process). Candidate DEGs that may be involved in body color included apolipoprotein D, crustacyanin, cytochrome P450, and tyrosinase, as verified by quantitative real-time PCR. The results of this study provide useful references to further elucidate the molecular mechanisms of color formation of M. rosenbergii and other crustaceans.
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