Post-diapause transcriptomic restarts: insight from a high-latitude copepod.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diapause is a seasonal dormancy that allows organisms to survive unfavorable conditions and optimizes the timing of reproduction and growth. Emergence from diapause reverses the state of arrested development and metabolic suppression returning the organism to an active state. The physiological mechanisms that regulate the transition from diapause to post-diapause are still unknown. In this study, this transition has been characterized for the sub-arctic calanoid copepod Neocalanus flemingeri, a key crustacean zooplankter that supports the highly productive North Pacific fisheries. Transcriptional profiling of females, determined over a two-week time series starting with diapausing females collected from > 400 m depth, characterized the molecular mechanisms that regulate

SUBMITTER: Roncalli V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8176732 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature