Transcriptome profiling of the gills of a euryhaline teleost fish, Tetraodon nigroviridis, in response to altered calcium concentrations in water

• Author(s): Pinto, Patricia IS ; Power, Deborah ; Canario, Adelino V. M. ; Thorne, Michael A. S. ; Reinhardt, Richard ; Matsumura, H. ; Terauchi, R.
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3962
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Sapientia

Description

Fish are able to maintain their extracellular [Ca2+] relatively constant through regulatory mechanisms that control the influx or efflux of Ca2+ in osmoregulatory organs. To understand in depth the molecular basis of these adjustments, the whole gill transcriptome of the euryhaline teleost Tetraodon nigroviridis exposed to high and low [Ca2+] was obtained using Super Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SuperSAGE).