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Regulation of gene expression is associated with tolerance of the Arctic copepod Calanus glacialis to CO2-acidified sea water
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Bailey, Allison (author)
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- De Wit, Pierre, 1978 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Sven Lovén centrum för marina vetenskaper,Institutionen för marina vetenskaper,The Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences,Department of marine sciences
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Thor, Peter, 1965 (author)
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Browman, Howard (author)
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Bjelland, Reidun (author)
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Shema, Steven (author)
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Fields, David (author)
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Runge, Jeffrey (author)
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Thompson, Cameron (author)
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Hop, Haakon (author)
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- 2017-08-02
- 2017
- English.
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In: Ecology and Evolution. - : Wiley. - 2045-7758. ; 7:18, s. 7145-7160
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- Ocean acidification is the increase in seawater pCO2 due to the uptake of atmospheric anthropogenic CO2, with the largest changes predicted to occur in the Arctic seas. For some marine organisms, this change in pCO2, and associated decrease in pH, represents a climate change-related stressor. In this study, we investigated the gene expression patterns of nauplii of the Arctic copepod Calanus glacialis cultured at low pH levels. We have previously shown that organismal-level performance (development, growth, respiration) of C. glacialis nauplii is unaffected by low pH. Here, we investigated the molecular-level response to lowered pH in order to elucidate the physiological processes involved in this tolerance. Nauplii from wild-caught C. glacialis were cultured at four pH levels (8.05, 7.9, 7.7, 7.5). At stage N6, mRNA was extracted and sequenced using RNA-seq. The physiological functionality of the proteins identified was categorized using Gene Ontology and KEGG pathways. We found that the expression of 151 contigs varied significantly with pH on a continuous scale (93% downregulated with decreasing pH). Gene set enrichment analysis revealed that, of the processes downregulated, many were components of the universal cellular stress response, including DNA repair, redox regulation, protein folding, and proteolysis. Sodium:proton antiporters were among the processes significantly upregulated, indicating that these ion pumps were involved in maintaining cellular pH homeostasis. C. glacialis significantly alters its gene expression at low pH, although they maintain normal larval development. Understanding what confers tolerance to some species will support our ability to predict the effects of future ocean acidification on marine organisms.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Bioinformatik och systembiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Genetik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Genetics (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Cellbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Cell Biology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- ocean acidification
- pH
- phenotypic buffering
- RNA-seq
- stress response
- transcriptomics
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Fields, David
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