ABSTRACT: To analysis gene expression of lipid metabolism regulation between salmon families with different estimated breeding value of lipid content in muscle
Project description:Farmed and wild Atlantic salmon was given either vegetable oil (low DHA and EPA) feed or fish oil (high in DHA and EPA) feed or phospholipid (high in phospholipid) feed from start of feeding. We sampled and RNAseq two tissues (pyloric caeca and liver) on day 0, day 48, day 65 and day 94 after initial feeding.
Project description:The present study used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to generate two knockout strains of salmon by mutating 1) all fads genes simultaneously (delta-5fad, delta-6fad-a, delta-6fad-b and delta-6fad-c), and 2) delta-6fad-b and delta-6fad-c genes. Liver was taken and RNA-seq was used.
Project description:Farmed Atlantic salmon was given either a 6 % cellulose diet, a diet containing 6 % shrimp shell chitin or a diet containing 6 % chitin from black soldier fly larvae for a period of 4 weeks. The fish were split into six tanks at the beginning of the experiment; six fish per tank and two tanks per diet. RNA from stomach and pyloric caeca from four fish given each diet was sequenced.
Project description:The anadromous Atlantic salmon undergo preparatory physiological transformations before seawater entry, referred to as smoltification. Little is known about the photoperiod-influence and genome regulatory processes driving smoltification such as the large scale changes in lipid metabolism and energy homeostasis in the developing smolt liver. To shed light on this, we performed a smoltification trial using contrasting photoperiod regimes and generate a transcriptome data from livers throughout smoltification and after seawater transfer. In this experiment two groups of Atlantic salmon were reared for a total of 46 weeks from the parr stage, through smoltification, and seawater transfer. After 21 week from first feeding, the experiment group was given artificial winter photoperiod (8 hours light, 16 hours dark) for 8 weeks to induce smoltification before returning to constant light. The second control group received constant light throughout the experiment. Liver tissue was sampled from individuals first at week 1, 21 weeks after first feeding, then again at week 10, after the winter period, at week 19, after the expected smoltification time, and lastly at week 25, after transfer to seawater.
Project description:The anadromous Atlantic salmon undergo preparatory physiological transformations before seawater entry, referred to as smoltification. Little is known about the photoperiod-influence and genome regulatory processes driving smoltification such as the large scale changes in lipid metabolism and energy homeostasis in the developing smolt liver. To shed light on this, we performed a smoltification trial using contrasting photoperiod regimes and generate ATAC-seq data from livers throughout smoltification and after seawater transfer to assess the differences in chromatin accessibility. In this experiment Atlantic salmon were reared for a total of 46 weeks from the parr stage, through smoltification, and seawater transfer. After 21 week from first feeding, the group was given artificial winter photoperiod (8 hours light, 16 hours dark) for 8 weeks to induce smoltification before returning to constant light. Liver tissue was sampled from individuals first at week 1, 21 weeks after first feeding, then again at week 10, after the winter period, at week 19, after the expected smoltification time, and lastly at week 25, after transfer to seawater.
Project description:Estrogens regulate many reproductive processes in fish and other vertebrates. In fish, the pituitary and liver are among the main sites of action of estrogens in the reproductive brain-pituitary-gonadal-hepatic axis. Environmental contaminants with estrogenic compounds acting at these organs have the potential to interfere with the reproductive processes in fish. In this work, RNA-seq analysis was performed to map estrogen and xenoestrogen target genes in the juvenile female Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) liver after 72 h exposure to estrogenic compounds ethynylestradiol (EE2), and the xenoestrogens bisphenol A (BPA) and methoxychlor (MXC). Our results show that, in the liver, EE2 and the xenoestrogens modulated many genes and pathways related to vitellogenesis and lipid metabolism.
Project description:Capelin (Mallotus villosus) is one of the important fish species in the arctic marine foodweb that could be vulnerable to contaminant exposure from offshore petroleum related activities. The study was conducted to map transcriptome responses in capelin liver slice culture exposed to benzo[a]pyrene (BaP). BaP is a polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) which is among the most toxic compounds found in crude oil. Ex vivo liver slices culture was performed under 10 µM BaP exposure for 72 h and transcriptome analysis (RNA-seq) analysis was performed to characterize de novo transcriptome of the liver and identify genes responding to BaP exposure.
Project description:Estrogens regulate many reproductive processes in fish and other vertebrates. In fish, the pituitary and liver are among the main sites of action of estrogens in the reproductive brain-pituitary-gonadal-hepatic axis. Environmental contaminants with estrogenic compounds acting at these organs have the potential to interfere with the reproductive processes in fish. In this work, RNA-seq analysis was performed to map estrogen and xenoestrogen target genes in the juvenile female Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) after 72 h exposure to estrogenic compounds ethynylestradiol (EE2), and the xenoestrogens bisphenol A (BPA) and methoxychlor (MXC). Our results show that, in the pituitary, EE2 and the xenoestrogens modulated many genes and pathways related to reproduction (such as hormone synthesis, hormonal signaling), metabolic homeostasis, and cell differentiation and proliferation. The xenoestrogens BPA and MXC had similar effect as EE2 on the top differentially expressed genes, suggesting their potential to disrupt pituitary functions.
Project description:Transcripts of the gill epithelium from three different stocks of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) migrating from freshwater river to lake (Saimaa stock, SS), brackish water (Neva stock, NS) or seawater (Teno stock, TS) were compared at three successive developmental stages (parr, smolt and postsmolt) using the 16K GRASP cDNA microarray platform.