A Transcriptomic Analysis of Land Use Impacts on the Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, in the South Atlantic Bight.

ABSTRACT: Increasing utilization and human population density in the coastal zone is widely believed to place increasing stresses on the resident biota, but confirmation of this belief is somewhat lacking. While we have solid evidence that highly disturbed estuarine systems have dramatic changes in the resident biota (black and white if you will), we lack tools that distinguish the shades of grey. In part this lack of ability to distinguish shades of grey stems from the analytical tools that have been applied to studies of estuarine systems and perhaps more important is the insensitivity of the biological end points that we have used to assess these impacts. In this paper we will present data on the phenotypic adjustments as measured by transcriptomic signatures of a resilient organism (oysters) to

ORGANISM(S): Crassostrea virginica

SUBMITTER: G Warr 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14793 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress