Brain transcriptomic response of the threespine stickleback Gasteroteus aculeatus to predator cues

ABSTRACT: In this study, we used whole genome comparative oligonucleotide microarrays to investigate the brain transcriptomic response to predator cues using the threespine stickleback, Gasteroteus aculeatus. We showed that exposure to olfactory, visual and tactile cues of a predator (rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss) for six days resulted in subtle but significant transcriptomic changes in the brain of sticklebacks. Gene functional analysis and gene ontology (GO) enrichment revealed that the majority of the transcripts differentially expressed between the fish exposed to predator cues and the control group are primarily related to antigen processing and presentation (involving primarily the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)), transmission of synaptic signals, brain metabolic processes, gene

ORGANISM(S): Gasterosteus aculeatus

SUBMITTER: Yibayiri Sanogo 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21599 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress