Waveband specific transcriptional control of select genetic pathways in vertebrate skin (Xiphophorus maculatus).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evolution occurred exclusively under the full spectrum of sunlight. Conscription of narrow regions of the solar spectrum by specific photoreceptors suggests a common strategy for regulation of genetic pathways. Fluorescent light (FL) does not possess the complexity of the solar spectrum and has only been in service for about 60 years. If vertebrates evolved specific genetic responses regulated by light wavelengths representing the entire solar spectrum, there may be genetic consequences to reducing the spectral complexity of light.

Results

We utilized RNA-Seq to assess changes in the transcriptional profiles of Xiphophorus maculatus skin after exposure to FL ("cool white"), or narrow wavelength regions of light between 350 and 600 nm (i.e., 50 nm or 10 nm regions,

SUBMITTER: Walter RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5946439 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature