Transcriptome wide analyses reveal a sustained cellular stress response in the gill tissue of Trematomus bernacchii after acclimation to multiple stressors

BMC Genomics

Research Article

Troy J. Huth¹  Sean P. Place² 

[1] Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA;Department of Biology, Sonoma State University, 94928, Rohnert Park, CA, USA;

关键词: Ocean acidification;    Thermal stress;    RNA-seq;    Notothenioid;    Gene expression;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12864-016-2454-3

 received in 2015-08-01, accepted in 2016-02-09,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAs global climate change progresses, the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica is poised to undergo potentially rapid and substantial changes in temperature and pCO2. To survive in this challenging environment, the highly cold adapted endemic fauna of these waters must demonstrate sufficient plasticity to accommodate these changing conditions or face inexorable decline. Previous studies of notothenioids have focused upon the short-term response to heat stress; and more recently the longer-term physiological response to the combined stress of increasing temperatures and pCO2. This inquiry explores the transcriptomic response of Trematomus bernacchii to increased temperatures and pCO2 at 7, 28 and 56 days, in an attempt to discern the innate plasticity of T. bernacchii available to cope with a changing Southern Ocean.ResultsDifferential gene expression analysis supported previous research in that T. bernacchii exhibits no inducible heat shock response to stress conditions. However, T. bernacchii did demonstrate a strong stress response to the multi-stressor condition in the form of metabolic shifts, DNA damage repair, immune system processes, and activation of apoptotic pathways combined with negative regulation of cell proliferation. This response declined in magnitude over time, but aspects of this response remained detectable throughout the acclimation period.ConclusionsWhen exposed to the multi-stressor condition, T. bernacchii demonstrates a cellular stress response that persists for a minimum of 7 days before returning to near basal levels of expression at longer acclimation times. However, subtle changes in expression persist in fish acclimated for 56 days that may significantly affect the fitness T. bernacchii over time.

【 授权许可】

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© Huth and Place. 2016