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

• 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

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