RNA-Seq
- Divergent neurogenomic responses shape social learning of both personality and mate preference
Summary: The neurogenomic and behavioral consequences of developing in differing social environments in a swordtail fish indicate that social exposure is necessary for the development of key behaviors.
- Development-specific transcriptomic profiling suggests new mechanisms for anoxic survival in the ventricle of overwintering turtles
Summary: Ventricular gene expression of painted turtles is affected more by ontogeny than by anoxia. R-protein transcriptomic patterns suggest an adult-specific translational arrest mechanism that could explain divergent overwintering strategies across development.
- Disparate responses to salinity across species and organizational levels in anchialine shrimps
Summary: Five species of shrimps representing independent invasions of the anchialine ecosystem show wide variation in response to fluctuating salinity at the whole-animal, tissue and molecular level. Environmental adaptations to anchialine habitats may be divergent across both distantly and closely related taxa.
- RNA-seq reveals disruption of gene regulation when honey bees are caged and deprived of hive conditions
Summary: Honey bees caged for experimental purposes show significant alteration of their gene regulation and oxidative stress compared with their sister-mates operating under natural hive conditions.
- Identification of novel circadian transcripts in the zebrafish retina
Summary: Characterization of the day and night transcriptome of the adult zebrafish retina reveals novel circadian transcripts.
- Environmental history impacts gene expression during diapause development in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata
Summary: Gene expression during diapause development in Megachile rotundata is impacted by environmental history and is highly variable between individual overwintering prepupae.
- Exposure to CO2 influences metabolism, calcification and gene expression of the thecosome pteropod Limacina retroversa
Summary: Severity and duration of CO2 exposure influence calcification and respiration differentially in Limacina retroversa, as shown by organismal and gene expression responses, while captivity interactively influences respiration and gene expression.
- Considerations for the use of transcriptomics in identifying the ‘genes that matter’ for environmental adaptation
Summary: The ability of transcriptomics to identify genes that underlie environmental adaptation is explored in the context of recent systems-level experiments that provide new insights into the relationship between gene expression and fitness.
- Transcriptional responses to fluctuating thermal regimes underpinning differences in survival in the solitary bee Megachile rotundata
Summary: Transcripts associated with chill injury, neurological development and longevity are up-regulated in bees exposed to fluctuating temperatures during post-diapause quiescence.