Developing specific molecular biomarkers for thermal stress in salmonids.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) serve as good biological indicators of the breadth of climate warming effects on fish because their anadromous life cycle exposes them to environmental challenges in both marine and freshwater environments. Our study sought to mine the extensive functional genomic studies in fishes to identify robust thermally-responsive biomarkers that could monitor molecular physiological signatures of chronic thermal stress in fish using non-lethal sampling of gill tissue.

Results

Candidate thermal stress biomarkers for gill tissue were identified using comparisons among microarray datasets produced in the Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC, six external, published microarray studies on chronic and acute tem

SUBMITTER: Akbarzadeh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6192343 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature