Transcriptomic response to thermal and salinity stress in introduced and native sympatric Palaemon caridean shrimps.

ABSTRACT: Organisms develop local adaptations to cope with spatially and temporally variable environments such as estuarine habitats, where abiotic parameters such as salinity and temperature fluctuate continuously. Studying the regulation of gene expression in a variable environment allows us to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms of these adaptations and the relative roles of the genetic and plastic response. The transcriptomes of the European native Palaemon longirostris (PL) and the introduced P. macrodactylus (PM) shrimps are described and compared after an experiment simulating summer conditions in the Guadalquivir Estuary, Spain. Specimens, collected in the Guadalquivir Estuary, were maintained at a temperature and salinity of 20 °C and 5 ppt for the control, and 30 °C and 15 ppt f

SUBMITTER: Marie AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5656633 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature