Comparison of gene expression from surviving and dying Pacific oysters reveals a motality signature

ABSTRACT: This experiment was designed to enable the identification of field mortality sensitive Pacific oysters while also permitting the repetitive, non-lethal sampling of tissue from identifiable individual oysters. These samples have been difficult to obtain because pre-mortality phenotypes are obscured by the presence of an outer shell which occludes all views of body tissues. Additionally, mortality triggers have not been identified and there is need to better characterize the pathophysiology preceding mortality. 300 three year old oysters were sampled on 6 dates from May to October, 2008 from their grow out site at Totten Inlet, WA, USA. 100-200ul of hemolymph was withdrawn from the adductor muscle and preserved for possible mRNA analysis by microarray. At the end of the summer, mortality phe

ORGANISM(S): Crassostrea gigas

SUBMITTER: Maxine Chaney 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-548 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress