Differential Gene Expression during the Moult Cycle of Antarctic Krill (Euphausia Superba)

All crustaceans periodically moult to renew their exoskeleton. In krill this involves partial digestion and resorption of the old exoskeleton and synthesis of new cuticle. Molecular events that underlie the moult cycle are poorly understood in calcifying crustaceans and even less so in non-calcifyin...

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Published in:BMC Genomics
Main Authors: Seear, Paul J., Tarling, Geraint A., Burns, Gavin, Goodall-Copestake, William P., Gaten, Edward, Ozkaya, Özge, Rosato, Ezio
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2012
Subjects:
Animals
Antarctic Regions
Chitin
Digestion
Euphausiacea
Expressed Sequence Tags
Gene Expression Profiling
Gene Expression Regulation
Developmental
Gene Library
Hormones
Integumentary System
Life Cycle Stages
Molecular Sequence Data
Molting
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
Polymerase Chain Reaction
RNA
Messenger
Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctic Krill
Euphausia superba
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/582
http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10867
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-582
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Summary:All crustaceans periodically moult to renew their exoskeleton. In krill this involves partial digestion and resorption of the old exoskeleton and synthesis of new cuticle. Molecular events that underlie the moult cycle are poorly understood in calcifying crustaceans and even less so in non-calcifying organisms such as krill. To address this we constructed an Antarctic krill cDNA microarray in order to generate gene expression profiles across the moult cycle and identify possible activation pathways. Peer-reviewed Publisher Version

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