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Transcription profiling of major osmoregulatory tissues of Anguilla anguilla in response to the sea water environment

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to use a microarray approach to screen the major osmoregulatory tissues of the eel for changes in gene expression as fish acclimate to the SW environment. The other species (few clones) were used to validate the specificity of arrays hybridizations : Of the 6144 clones spotted, 96 contained control cDNAs comprising either known eel genes implicated in osmoregulation and previously studied in our laboratory or coding regions of genes sequenced from other species (ie. Aspergillus nidulans, Arabidopsis thaliana, Pleuronectes flesus, Carcharhinus leucas, Scyliorhinus canicula, Squalus acanthias and Salmo salar). The labelled cDNA probes derived from the eel RNAs hybridised only with the spotted cDNAs from the eel clones indicating the stringency and probe specificities of the hybridisation conditions were appropriate.

ORGANISM(S): Anguilla anguilla

SUBMITTER: unknown unknown

PROVIDER: E-MAXD-24 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Transcriptomic approach to the study of osmoregulation in the European eel Anguilla anguilla.

Kalujnaia Svetlana S McWilliam Iain S IS Zaguinaiko Vitalii A VA Feilen Anja L AL Nicholson John J Hazon Neil N Cutler Christopher P CP Cramb Gordon G

Physiological genomics 20070731 3

In euryhaline teleosts, osmoregulation is a fundamental and dynamic process that is essential for the maintenance of ion and water balance, especially when fish migrate between fresh water (FW) and sea water (SW) environments. The European eel has proved to be an excellent model species to study the molecular and physiological adaptations associated with this osmoregulatory plasticity. The life cycle of the European eel includes two migratory periods, the second being the migration of FW eels ba ...[more]

PMID: 17666525

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Transcription profiling of major osmoregulatory tissues of Anguilla anguilla in response to the sea water environment

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Transcriptomic approach to the study of osmoregulation in the European eel Anguilla anguilla.

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