Exploring the potential of a Functional Gene Array (FGA) for fluvial biofilms

ABSTRACT: Microarrays offer a comprehensive tool for a system-wide analysis of cell functioning based on the simultaneous detection of the activity of thousands of genes. While transcriptome analyses are usually related with the study of gene expression and regulation within single species in laboratory experiments or environmental samples, in the present study, the possibility of studying gene expression in river biofilm communities was explored. To this aim a Functional Gene array (FGA), based on consensus sequences from genes of key physiological processes, was designed including 83 functional genes chosen to reflect several essential biochemical pathways and specific stress response pathways. Probes of these genes were designed from consensus sequences from up to 6 microalgal species (diatoms an

ORGANISM(S): Scenedesmus vacuolatus

SUBMITTER: Chloé Bonnineau 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-22496 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress