Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 158-170.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2022-1190

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Development of Single Cell Transcriptome Sequencing Technology and Its Application in Caenorhabditis elegans

ZHAO Jin-ling1,3(), AN Lei1,3, REN Xiao-liang1,2()   

  1. 1. Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071
    2. Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237
    3. University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
  • Received:2022-09-26 Online:2023-06-26 Published:2023-07-07
  • Contact: REN Xiao-liang E-mail:zhaojl21@qdio.ac.cn;xlren@qdio.ac.cn

Abstract:

Single cell transcriptome sequencing technology enables people to get rid of the interference of cell heterogeneity,thus realizing the exploration of gene expression and transcriptional regulation mechanism at single cell level,as well as the recognition of different cell subpopulations and special cell types,which is of great significance to the research in the field of phylogeny. The traditional model organism Caenorhabditis elegans has become an important model for single-cell transcriptomic research in recent years because of its fixed number of somatic cells and clear trajectory of cell differentiation. This paper summarizes the development of single-cell transcriptome sequencing technology and its application in the research of cell lineage analysis,single-cell trajectory inference and neuronal cell Atlas of C. elegans,and further prospects the future research direction.

Key words: single-cell RNA sequencing, Caenorhabditis elegans