Transcriptomic Responses of Blue Bat Star <i>Patiria pectinifera</i> to Sediment Burial.

ABSTRACT: Sediment burial generated by deep-sea mining is usually lethal to echinoderms, which are ecologically important in marine environments. However, their molecular mechanisms responding to sediment burial are still rarely investigated. In this study, Patiria pectinifera was investigated for sediment burial research to analyze its gene expression variations by using comparative transcriptomes and to probe into shared molecular mechanisms of echinoderms under sediment burial. During sediment burial experiments, dissolved oxygen continuously decreased, which had a significant impact on Patiria pectinifera, which suffered from hypoxic stress. Based on functional annotations of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), its metabolic patterns altered with the upregulated DEGs related to

SUBMITTER: Dong H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12154441 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature