Journal
POLAR BIOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 403-415Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-008-0533-x
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Genomics; Antarctic fish; Heat stress
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- NSF-OPP Fellowship Award [0443754, OPP05-04072]
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [0443754] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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During their many millions of years of evolution in the extreme and stable cold, Antarctic notothenioid fishes have acquired profoundly cold-adapted physiologies. Gene expression profiling via cDNA microarray was used to determine the extent to which one species of notothenioid, Trematomus bernacchii, has retained the ability to alter gene expression in response to heat stress. While an inability to up-regulate the expression of any size class of heat shock proteins (except for a 1.1-fold induction of the co-chaperone Hsp40) was observed, hundreds of additional genes, associated with a broad range of cellular processes, were responsive to heat. Many of these genes are associated with central aspects of the evolutionarily conserved cellular stress response (CSR), which plays a pivotal role in responding to physical and chemical stresses. The inability of T. bernacchii to mount a heat shock response underscores the potential susceptibility of this species to the effects of global warming.
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