Project description:Monitoring microbial communities can aid in understanding the state of these habitats. Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques provide efficient and comprehensive monitoring by capturing broader diversity. Besides structural profiling, eDNA methods allow the study of functional profiles, encompassing the genes within the microbial community. In this study, three methodologies were compared for functional profiling of microbial communities in estuarine and coastal sites in the Bay of Biscay. The methodologies included inference from 16S metabarcoding data using Tax4Fun, GeoChip microarrays, and shotgun metagenomics.
Project description:Prymnesium parvum is regarded as one of the most notorious harmful algal bloom (HAB) species worldwide. In recent years, it has frequently formed toxic blooms in coastal and brackish waters of America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia, causing large-scale mortalities of wild and cultured fish and other gill-breathing animals. In the last decade, blooms of P. parvum have expanded to inland fresh waters in the USA, presumably due to changes in environmental conditions. The aim of the experiment was to establish the gill transcriptomic responses to P. parvum in rainbow trout. We used 2 different concentrations of P. parvum and identified fish with low and moderate responses to the algae. Based on the dose of and the fish response, fish were classified into 4 groups with high exposure/moderate response (HM), high exposure/low response (HL), low exposure/low response (LL) and control group (C) with no exposure/no response. Gene expression profiling of the gill tissue was performed using a microarray platform developed and validated for rainbow trout.
Project description:A custom multi-species microarray was used to study gene expression in wild hornyhead turbot (Pleuronichthys verticalis), collected from polluted and clean coastal waters in Southern California and in laboratory male zebrafish (Danio rerio) following exposure to estradiol and 4-nonylphenol. A multi-gene cross species microarray was fabricated as a diagnostic tool to screen the effects of environmental chemicals in fish, for which there is minimal genomic information. The microarray measurement of gene expression in zebrafish, which are phylogenetically distant from turbot, indicates that this multi-species microarray will be useful for measuring endocrine responses in Pleuronectiformes and other fish for which there is minimal genomic sequence information.
Project description:A custom multi-species microarray was used to study gene expression in wild hornyhead turbot (Pleuronichthys verticalis), collected from polluted and clean coastal waters in Southern California and in laboratory male zebrafish (Danio rerio) following exposure to estradiol and 4-nonylphenol. A multi-gene cross species microarray was fabricated as a diagnostic tool to screen the effects of environmental chemicals in fish, for which there is minimal genomic information. The microarray measurement of gene expression in zebrafish, which are phylogenetically distant from turbot, indicates that this multi-species microarray will be useful for measuring endocrine responses in Pleuronectiformes and other fish for which there is minimal genomic sequence information.
2009-07-17 | E-MTAB-43 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:eDNA studies on Coastal waters of Tuticorin, India
| PRJNA609414 | ENA
Project description:microbial diversity in the coastal waters
Project description:Hypoxia in coastal waters is an increasing concern, with the frequency of hypoxic events rising because of climate change and human-driven impacts such as eutrophication. The Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus), an estuarine species known for its resilience to environmental stressors, provides a valuable model to investigate the physiological, transcriptional, and epigenetic mechanisms underlying adaptation. Some killifish populations, like those in New Bedford Harbor (NBH), Massachusetts, have evolved resistance to dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) due to chronic exposure. These populations offer a unique opportunity to investigate how toxicant resistance might influence responses to secondary stressors like hypoxia. The objective of this study is to characterize the impacts of evolved resistance to toxicants on the ability to cope with acute hypoxia. We compared hepatic gene expression and DNA methylation patterns in response to two levels of hypoxia in killifish from NBH and Scorton Creek (SC), a reference population from a relatively pristine environment. We hypothesized that NBH fish would exhibit altered molecular responses to hypoxia due to trade-offs associated with toxicant resistance. Our results revealed significant differences between the two populations. SC fish demonstrated a dose-dependent increase in gene expression in response to hypoxia, while NBH fish exhibited a muted transcriptional response to severe hypoxia, indicating potential impairment in their ability to cope with hypoxic stress. Interestingly, NBH fish showed significant DNA methylation changes in response to hypoxia, while SC fish did not exhibit notable epigenetic alterations. These findings suggest that toxicant-adapted killifish may face trade-offs in their response to additional environmental stressors, with potential consequences for their ability to survive in increasingly hypoxic coastal habitats. Further research is needed to elucidate the functional implications of these epigenetic modifications and their role in adaptive stress responses.
2024-10-02 | GSE278569 | GEO
Project description:Are sponges good natural sentinels for monitoring fish diversity in Antarctic coastal waters?
| PRJNA1017664 | ENA
Project description:Fish diversity in Oslofjorden, eDNA based monitoring by citizen science - 2022