Transcriptome response to salinity stress in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

ABSTRACT: Low salinity is one of the main factors limiting the distribution and survival of marine species. As a euryhaline species, the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas can be tolerant to relative low salinity. Through Illumina sequencing, we generated two transcriptomes with samples taken from gills of oysters exposed to the low salinity seawater versus the optimal seawater. By RNAseq technology, we found 1665 up-regulation genes and 1815 down-regulation genes that may regulate osmotic stress in C. gigas. As blasted by GO annotation and KEGG pathway mapping, functional annotation of the genes recovered diverse biological functions and processes. The genes regulated significantly were dominated in cellular process and regulation of biological process, intracellular and cell, binding and protein bin

ORGANISM(S): Crassostrea gigas

SUBMITTER: Xuelin Zhao 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-38022 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress