Transcription profiling of brain from juvenile yellow and adult sexually mature silver eels, Anguilla anguilla
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发布时间March 1, 2008
, 更新时间 May 2, 2014
物种:
Anguilla anguilla
摘要:
We investigated the transition from juvenile yellow to the adult sexually maturing, migrating silver eel (Anguilla anguilla) by examining the hypothesis that: The brain is the central organ for the co-ordination of environmental cues (day length, photoperiod, temperature and environmental salinity) with the anatomical and physiological adaptations which accompany pre-migrational morphogenesis and the osmoregulatory plasticity seen in post-migrational, salinity-adapted fish. We have characertised the mRNA expression profiles for the brains of fresh water, yellow and silver eel using a highly representative brain cDNA microarray. The array comprises 5760 cDNA clones from A.anguilla ranging from 0.5 -10 kb and an estimated redundancy of > 5 %.