A microarray-based analysis of gametogenesis in two Portuguese populations of the European clam Ruditapes decussatus.

ABSTRACT: The European clam, Ruditapes decussatus is a species with a high commercial importance in Portugal and other Southern European countries. Its production is almost exclusively based on natural recruitment, which is subject to high annual fluctuations. Increased knowledge of the natural reproductive cycle of R. decussatus and its molecular mechanisms would be particularly important in providing new highly valuable genomic information for better understanding the regulation of reproduction in this economically important aquaculture species. In this study, the transcriptomic bases of R. decussatus reproduction have been analysed using a custom oligonucleotide microarray representing 51,678 assembled contigs. Microarray analyses were performed in four gonadal maturation stages from two differen

SUBMITTER: de Sousa JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3958495 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature