Daily transcriptomes of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus during the summer solstice at high Arctic latitudes

Abstract The zooplankter Calanus finmarchicus is a member of the so-called “Calanus Complex”, a group of copepods that constitutes a key element of the Arctic polar marine ecosystem, providing a crucial link between primary production and higher trophic levels. Climate change induces the shift of C....

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Published in:Scientific Data
Main Authors: Payton, Laura, Noirot, Céline, Hoede, Claire, Hüppe, Lukas, Last, Kim, Wilcockson, David, Ershova, Elizaveta A., Valière, Sophie, Meyer, Bettina
Other Authors: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, RCUK | Natural Environment Research Council, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the Tromsø Research Foundation (project number 01vm/h15) IO RAS
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Subjects:
Library and Information Sciences
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Computer Science Applications
Education
Information Systems
Statistics and Probability
Arctic
Calanus finmarchicus
Climate change
Sea ice
Copepods
midnight sun
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00751-4
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00751-4.pdf
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00751-4
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Summary:Abstract The zooplankter Calanus finmarchicus is a member of the so-called “Calanus Complex”, a group of copepods that constitutes a key element of the Arctic polar marine ecosystem, providing a crucial link between primary production and higher trophic levels. Climate change induces the shift of C. finmarchicus to higher latitudes with currently unknown impacts on its endogenous timing. Here we generated a daily transcriptome of C. finmarchicus at two high Arctic stations, during the more extreme time of Midnight Sun, the summer solstice. While the southern station (74.5 °N) was sea ice-free, the northern one (82.5 °N) was sea ice-covered. The mRNAs of the 42 samples have been sequenced with an average of 126 ± 5 million reads (mean ± SE) per sample, and aligned to the reference transcriptome. We detail the quality assessment of the datasets and the complete annotation procedure, providing the possibility to investigate daily gene expression of this ecologically important species at high Arctic latitudes, and to compare gene expression according to latitude and sea ice-coverage.

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