Is geographical variation driving the transcriptomic responses to multiple stressors in the kelp Saccharina latissima?

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Kelps (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) are brown macroalgae of utmost ecological, and increasingly economic, importance on temperate to polar rocky shores. Omics approaches in brown algae are still scarce and knowledge of their acclimation mechanisms to the changing conditions experienced in coastal environments can benefit from the application of RNA-sequencing. Despite evidence of ecotypic differentiation, transcriptomic responses from distinct geographical locations have, to our knowledge, never been studied in the sugar kelp Saccharina latissima so far. RESULTS:In this study we investigated gene expression responses using RNA-sequencing of S. latissima from environments with contrasting temperature and salinity conditions - Roscoff, in temperate eastern Atlantic, and Spitsbergen

SUBMITTER: Machado Monteiro CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6881991 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature