Reishia bronni transcriptome project

Reishia bronni (Thais bronni, REISHIGAI in Japanese) is a species of carnivorous sea snail belonging to the marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae. In summer, in its natural environment in Akita, Japan, Reishigai produces an egg mass complex composed of thousands of cylindrical egg capsules. Conspecific adults tend to swarm around the egg mass. We are interested in the manner in which the egg capsules are formed and in the causes of the swarming of conspecifics around the egg mass because these two features are distinctive to the reproductive strategies of Reishigai. We have constructed de novo transcriptome to obtain molecular information on the formation of the egg capsule and the swarming activity.