Transcriptomic data during development of a two-spotted cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

Nobuaki Kono; Hiroyuki Nakamura; Rintaro Ohtoshi; Kazuharu Arakawa

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.107388

Transcriptomic data during development of a two-spotted cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

Data Brief. 2021 Sep 20:38:107388. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107388. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Nobuaki Kono^{1

2}, Hiroyuki Nakamura³, Rintaro Ohtoshi³, Kazuharu Arakawa^{1

4

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Advance Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-0017, Japan.
² Systems Biology Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-0882, Japan.
³ Spiber Inc., Tsuruoka, Yamagata, 997-0052, Japan.
⁴ Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-0882, Japan.

Abstract

The two-spotted cricket Gryllus bimaculatus is a popular food for reptiles and other insectivorous animals, for the ease of breeding and rich nutrients. It goes through eight moulting cycles until it grows into an adult of size around 30-40 mm, but different larval instars are also used for their sizes matching the fed animals. We therefore provide a transcriptomic resource on different developmental stages of G. bimaculatus to understand the inner molecular workings of these stages contributing to varying nutrients. The raw RNA sequence data is available at NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under the BioProject PRJNA716138 and the assembled contigs are available as a supplementary data of this report.

Keywords: Cricket; Development; Gryllus bimaculatus; Instar; Transcriptome.