Co-expression network analysis of environmental canalization in the ascidian Ciona.

ABSTRACT: Canalization, or buffering, is defined as developmental stability in the face of genetic and/or environmental perturbations. Understanding how canalization works is important in predicting how species survive environmental change, as well as deciphering how development can be altered in the evolutionary process. However, how developmental gene expression is linked to buffering remains unclear. We addressed this by co-expression network analysis, comparing gene expression changes caused by heat stress during development at a whole-embryonic scale in reciprocal hybrid crosses of sibling species of the ascidian Ciona that are adapted to different thermal environments. Since our previous work showed that developmental buffering in this group is maternally inherited, we first identified materna

SUBMITTER: Sato A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9052645 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature