Identification of factors involved in somatic stem cells in the Drosophila testis

We report the transcriptional profiles obtained by next-generation sequencing (NGS) of FACS-purified somatic cyst stem cells (CySCs) from adult testes of Drosophila melanogaster. The goals of this study are to compare NGS-derived transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of wild type CySCs to those that have decreased Chinmo, increased Chinmo, elevated JAK/STAT signaling or elevated Hh signaling. Overall design: Examination of differentially-regulated genes in four types of CySCs, those with decreased Chinmo, increased Chinmo, increased JAK/STAT signaling or increased Hh signaling, compared to controls.