Article
High natural gene expression variation in the reef-building coral Acropora millepora: potential for acclimative and adaptive plasticity.
BMC genomics - 8 Apr 2013
Granados-Cifuentes Camila, Bellantuono Anthony J, Ridgway Tyrone, Hoegh-Guldberg Ove, Rodriguez-Lanetty Mauricio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ecosystems worldwide are suffering the consequences of anthropogenic impact. The diverse ecosystem of coral reefs, for example, are globally threatened by increases in sea surface temperatures due to global warming. Studies to date have focused on determining genetic diversity, the sequence variability of genes in a species, as a proxy to estimate and predict the potential adaptive response of coral...
Topics
- Acclimatization
- Animals
- Anthozoa
- Carbonic Anhydrases
- Coral Reefs
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genetic Loci
- Genotype
- Introns
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
