Sugar sweet springtails: On the transcriptional response of Folsomia candida (Collembola) towards desiccation stress

ABSTRACT: Folsomia candida (Collembola) is able to survive dryer conditions by absorbing water vapour from its surroundings. To unravel the genomic responses underlying this intriguing water-absorption mechanism, we exposed the species to 98.2% Relative Humidity (eight, 27, 53 and 174 hours respectively) and subjected it to microarray based transcription profiling. About twenty-five 25-27 day old animals were placed in plastic containers that had a Relative Humidity of 98.2% (desiccated groups; n=16) or 100% RH (reference groups; n=16). After 8, 27, 53 and 174 hours four reference and four desiccation treated groups were snap-frozen (in liquid nitrogen) and stored at –80 °C until further analysis. Total RNA was obtained for each of the 32 samples. 500ng total RNA was labelled with the Agilent Lo

ORGANISM(S): Folsomia candida

SUBMITTER: Martijn Timmermans 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-16127 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress