Transcriptome analyses of sex differential gene expression in brains of rare minnow ( Gobiocypris rarus) and effects of tributyltin exposure

摘要

RNA-sequencing was used to identify sex-biased gene expression in brains of rare minnow ( Gobiocypris rarus ) by comparing transcriptomic profiles between females and males. Furthermore, transcriptomic responses to 10?ng/L tributyltin (TBT) in both male and female brains were also investigated to understand whether TBT affects the identified sex-biased genes. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified using the IDEG6 web tool. In this article, we presented male- and female-biased DEGs, and up-regulated and down-regulated DEGs after TBT exposure. The raw reads data supporting the present analyses has been deposited in NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra ) with accession number PRJNA376634. The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled “Transcriptomic analyses of sexual dimorphism of rare minnow ( G. rarus ) brains and effects of tributyltin exposure” (doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.02.049).