Coping with stress in a warming Gulf: the postlarval American lobster's cellular stress response under future warming scenarios.

ABSTRACT: The Gulf of the Maine (GoM) is one of the fastest warming bodies of water in the world, posing serious physiological challenges to its marine inhabitants. Marine organisms can cope with the cellular and molecular stresses created by climate change through changes in gene expression. We used transcriptomics to examine how exposure to current summer temperatures (16 °C) or temperature regimes reflective of projected moderate and severe warming conditions (18 °C and 22 °C, respectively) during larval development alters expression of transcripts affiliated with the cellular stress response (CSR) in postlarval American lobsters (Homarus americanus). We identified 26 significantly differentially expressed (DE) transcripts annotated to CSR proteins. Specifically, transcripts for proteins affiliat

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Anido RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8275755 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature