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RNA-seq analysis of early hepatic response to handling and confinement stress in rainbow trout.


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Fish under intensive rearing conditions experience various stressors which have negative impacts on survival, growth, reproduction and fillet quality. Identifying and characterizing the molecular mechanisms underlying stress responses will facilitate the development of strategies that aim to improve animal welfare and aquaculture production efficiency. In this study, we used RNA-seq to identify transcripts which are differentially expressed in the rainbow trout liver in response to handling and confinement stress. These stressors were selected due to their relevance in aquaculture production. Total RNA was extracted from the livers of individual fish in five tanks having eight fish each, including three tanks of fish subjected to a 3 hour handling and confinement stress and two control tanks. Equal amount of total RNA of six individual fish was pooled by tank to create five RNA-seq libraries which were sequenced in one lane of Illumina HiSeq 2000. Three sequencing runs were conducted to obtain a total of 491,570,566 reads which were mapped onto the previously generated stress reference transcriptome to identify 316 differentially expressed transcripts (DETs). Twenty one DETs were selected for qPCR to validate the RNA-seq approach. The fold changes in gene expression identified by RNA-seq and qPCR were highly correlated (R(2)?=?0.88). Several gene ontology terms including transcription factor activity and biological process such as glucose metabolic process were enriched among these DETs. Pathways involved in response to handling and confinement stress were implicated by mapping the DETs to reference pathways in the KEGG database.

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Raw RNA-seq reads have been submitted to the NCBI Short Read Archive under accession number SRP022881.

Customized perl scripts

All customized scripts described in this paper are available from Dr. Guangtu Gao or the corresponding author.

SUBMITTER: Liu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3928254 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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RNA-seq analysis of early hepatic response to handling and confinement stress in rainbow trout.

Liu Sixin S   Gao Guangtu G   Palti Yniv Y   Cleveland Beth M BM   Weber Gregory M GM   Rexroad Caird E CE  

PloS one 20140218 2


Fish under intensive rearing conditions experience various stressors which have negative impacts on survival, growth, reproduction and fillet quality. Identifying and characterizing the molecular mechanisms underlying stress responses will facilitate the development of strategies that aim to improve animal welfare and aquaculture production efficiency. In this study, we used RNA-seq to identify transcripts which are differentially expressed in the rainbow trout liver in response to handling and  ...[more]

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