Embryonic thermal environments drive plasticity in gene expression.

ABSTRACT: When embryos experience different environments than their parents, plasticity can enable the development of alternate phenotypes that confer higher fitness in the new conditions. Temperature-induced plasticity could be especially critical for species that inhabit areas with considerable thermal variation. We studied transcriptional variation in embryos of mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus)-a self-fertilizing hermaphroditic, eurythermal fish that resides in notoriously spatiotemporally variable mangrove forests-exposed to different thermal regimes during development. To study transcriptional plasticity, we first improved the genome assembly to chromosome length scaffolds (N50 of 28.17 Megabases). Whole transcriptome sequencing revealed that both temperature and developmental timing

SUBMITTER: Snead AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12152062 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature