ABSTRACT: Gene expression differences between fast and slow growing individuals of carpet-shell clam (Ruditapes decussatus) assessed with a microarray in digestive gland
Project description:Gene expression differences between fast and slow growing individuals of carpet-shell clam (Ruditapes decussatus) assessed with a microarray in gills
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of populations in the clam Ruditapes decussatus determined differentiation in gene-expression along parallel temperature gradients and between races of the Atlantic Ocean and West Mediterranean sea.
Project description:An R.decussatus microarray platform was developed to to profile gene expression in R. decussatus heavy infected by Perkinsus olseni A comparative analysis of gene expression was conducted between Grooved carpet shell clam R. decussatus individuals for non infected and infected by Perkinsus olseni clam gills. Gene expression profiling was performed using an R.decussatus oligo-DNA microarray of 43,758 probes based on single-colour detection (Cyanine-3 only). Microarrays were scanned with Agilent scanner G2565BA at a resolution of 5 microns; all slides were scanned twice at two different sensitivity settings (XDRHi 100% and XDRLo 10%); the scanner software created a unique ID for each pair of XDR scans and saved it to both scan image files. Feature Extraction (FE) 9.5 used XDR ID to link the pairs of scans together automatically when extracting data. The signal left after all the FE processing steps have been completed is ProcessedSignal that contains the Multiplicatively Detrended, Background-Subtracted Signal.
Project description:The European clam, Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a bivalve mollusc of the family Veneridae native to the European Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal waters. Its production is exclusively based on natural recruitment, which is subject to high annual fluctuations due to adversely affected by pollution and other environmental factors. A microarray-based analysis was performed with the objectives of describe genomic feature of oocytes and identify potential markers of oocyte quality in the economically important European clam, Ruditapes decussatus. The oocytes of a total of 25 females from Ria de Aveiro, Western coast of Portugal, were selected for this study and their quality was estimated by early developmental success until D-larval rate, under controlled conditions.
Project description:Gene expression differences between fast and slow growing individuals of carpet-shell clam (Ruditapes decussatus) assessed with a microarray
