Aquatic insects are well-adapted to freshwater environments, but metabolic mechanisms of such adaptations, particularly to primary environmental factors (e.g., hypoxia, water pressure, dark light and abundant microbes), are poorly known. Most firefly species (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) are terrestri...
Microalgae are important primary producers and form the basis for the marine food web. As global climate changes, so do salinity levels that algae are exposed to. A metabolic response of algal cells partly alleviates the resulting osmotic stress. Some metabolites involved in the response are well...
225 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt observed the first crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) tree, Clusia rosea (Clusiaceae). Since then, the photosynthetic and ecophysiological plasticity of Clusia
species have captivated the minds of plant scientists worldwide. CAM is a physiological adapt...
Bamboo rats (Rhizomys pruinosus) are among the few mammals that lives on a bamboo-based diet which is mainly composed of lignocellulose. However, the mechanisms of adaptation of their gut microbiome and metabolic systems in the degradation of lignocellulose are largely unknown. Here, we ...
Despite increasing application of microalgae for antibiotic-contaminated aquaculture wastewater treatment, how salinity regulates antibiotic transformation depth and cellular adaptation remains unclear. This study combined salinity-gradient cultivation, process partitioning, transformation-product p...
We performed a microarray screening of adult rat retinas to identify genes that could show and up- or down-regulation due to exposure to light. This study was performed using ex-vivo retinas collected from adult Long Evans rats that were exposed to light (1000 Lux), or were left in dark as control. ...
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Network-level analysis of light adaptation in rod cells under normal and altered conditions.
Dell'Orco D, Schmidt H, Mariani S, Fanelli F
Mol Biosyst2009 Oct; 5(10):1232-46
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Abstract:
Photoreceptor...
The sensation of light is initiated in photoreceptor cells by the photoisomerization of a chromophore molecule from 11-cis to all-trans retinal. Continuous visual perception requires recycling of the spent chromophore back to the 11-cis form through the visual cycle, a series of reactions in the ret...
RNA isolation and RNA-Seq: Wild-type Xcc or pXccBphP strains were cultured in far-red light or dark conditions up to logarithmic phase (0.7 to 0.8 OD600) at 28C in PYM broth. Total bacterial RNA was isolated using the MasterPureTM RNA Purification Kit (Epicentre, Illumina). Samples corresponding to ...
