Anguillicola crassus infection affects mRNA expression levels in gas gland tissue of European yellow and silver eel.

ABSTRACT: Using Illumina sequencing, we investigated transcriptional changes caused by the nematode Anguillicola crassus within yellow and silver eels by comparing swimbladder samples of uninfected yellow with infected yellow eels, and uninfected silver with infected silver eels, respectively. In yellow eel gas gland, the infection caused a modification of steady state mRNA levels of 1675 genes, most of them being upregulated. Functional annotation analysis based on GO terms was used to categorize identified genes with regard to swimbladder metabolism or response to the infection. In yellow eels, the most prominent category was 'immune response', including various inflammatory components, complement proteins, and immunoglobulins. The elevated expression of several glucose and monocarboxylate transpo

SUBMITTER: Schneebauer G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5560681 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature