Contrasting transcriptome response to thermal stress in two key zooplankton species, Calanus finmarchicus and C. glacialis

Climate change has already led to the range expansion of warm-water plankton assemblages in the northeast Atlantic and the corresponding range contraction of colder-water species. The temperate copepod Calanus finmarchicus is predicted to shift farther northward into polar waters traditionally domin...

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Published in:Marine Ecology Progress Series
Main Authors: Smolina, I, Kollias, S, Møller, EF, Lindeque, PK, Sundaram, AYM, Fernandes, JMO, Hoarau, G
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Biology
Ecology and Environment
Marine Sciences
Arctic
Greenland
Arctic copepod
Calanus finmarchicus
Climate change
Disko Bay
Northeast Atlantic
Zooplankton
Online Access:http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6778/
http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6778/1/Smolina%20et%20al%202015%20MEPS.pdf
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11398
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Summary:Climate change has already led to the range expansion of warm-water plankton assemblages in the northeast Atlantic and the corresponding range contraction of colder-water species. The temperate copepod Calanus finmarchicus is predicted to shift farther northward into polar waters traditionally dominated by the arctic copepod C. glacialis. To identify temperaturemediated changes in gene expression that may be critical for the thermal acclimation and resilience of the 2 Calanus spp., we conducted a whole transcriptome profiling using RNA-seq on an Ion Torrent platform. Transcriptome responses of C. finmarchicus and C. glacialis from Disko Bay, west Greenland, were investigated under realistic thermal stresses (at + 5, +10 and +15°C) for 4 h and 6 d. C. finmarchicus showed a strong response to temperature and duration of stress, involving up-regulation of genes related to protein folding, transcription, translation and metabolism. In sharp contrast, C. glacialis displayed only low-magnitude changes in gene expression in response to temperature and duration of stress. Differences in the thermal responses of the 2 species, particularly the lack of thermal stress response in C. glacialis, are in line with laboratory and field observations and suggest a vulnerability of C. glacialis to climate change.

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