Transcriptional plasticity of a soil arthropod across different ecological conditions

ABSTRACT: It has long been recognized that species occupy a specific ecological niche within their ecosystem. The ecological niche is defined as the number of conditions and resources that limit species distribution. Within their ecological niche, species do not exist in a single physiological state but in a number of states we call the Natural Operating Range. In this paper we link ecological niche theory to physiological ecology by measuring gene expression levels of collembolans exposed to various natural conditions. The soil-dwelling collembolan Folsomia candida was exposed to 26 natural soils with different soil characteristics (soil type, land use, practice, etc). The animals were exposed for two days and gene expression levels were measured. The main factor found to regulate gene expression w

ORGANISM(S): Folsomia candida

SUBMITTER: Tjalf de Boer 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21213 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress