Transcriptome data of control and Ascosphaera apis infected Apis mellifera ligustica larval guts

Huazhi Chen; Yu Du; Zhiwei Zhu; Cuiling Xiong; Yanzhen Zheng; Dafu Chen; Rui Guo

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105264

Transcriptome data of control and Ascosphaera apis infected Apis mellifera ligustica larval guts

Data Brief. 2020 Feb 8:29:105264. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105264. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Huazhi Chen¹, Yu Du¹, Zhiwei Zhu¹, Cuiling Xiong¹, Yanzhen Zheng¹, Dafu Chen¹, Rui Guo¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Animal Sciences (College of Bee Science), Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.

Abstract

Ascosphaera apis is an obligate fungal pathogen of honeybee larvae that leads to chalkbrood, which causes heavy losses for the apiculture in China and many other countries. In this article, guts of 4-, 5-, 6-day-old Apis mellifera ligustica larvae challenged by A. apis (AmT1, AmT2, AmT3) and normal 4-day-old larval guts (AmCK) were sequenced using next-generation sequencing technology. On average, 29,196,197, 28,690,943, 29,779,715 and 30,496,725 raw reads were yielded from these four groups; an average of 29,540,895 clean reads were obtained after quality control. In addition, the mapping ratio of clean reads in treatment and control groups to the Apis mellifera genome were over 97.16%. For more insight please see "Uncovering the immune responses of Apis mellifera ligustica larval gut to Ascosphaera apis infection utilizing transcriptome sequencing" [1]. The raw data were submitted to the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database under accession numbers: SRR4084091, SRR4084092, SRR4084095, SRR4084096, SRR4084097, SRR4084098, SRR4084099, SRR4084100, SRR4084101, SRR4084102, SRR4084093, SRR4084094.

Keywords: Apis mellifera ligustica; Ascosphaera apis; Gut; Larvae; Transcriptome; Western honeybee.