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SUBMITTER: Chandler VK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5562136 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chandler V Katelyn VK Wares John P JP
PeerJ 20170815
An overdominant mutation in an intron of the elongation factor 1-<i>α</i> (EF1A) gene in the sea star <i>Pisaster ochraceus</i> has shown itself to mediate tolerance to "sea star wasting disease", a pandemic that has significantly reduced sea star populations on the Pacific coast of North America. Here we use RNA sequencing of healthy individuals to identify differences in constitutive expression of gene regions that may help explain this tolerance phenotype. Our results show that individuals ca ...[more]