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Surviving in a toxic world: transcriptomics and gene expression profiling in response to environmental pollution in the critically endangered European eel Pujolar, J.M.; Marino, I.AM; Milan, M.; Coppe, A.; Maes, G.E.; Capoccioni, F.; Ciccotti, E.; Bervoets, L.; Covaci, A.; Belpaire, C.; Cramb, G.; Patarnello, T.; Bargelloni, L.; Bortoluzzi, S.; Zane, L. (2012). Surviving in a toxic world: transcriptomics and gene expression profiling in response to environmental pollution in the critically endangered European eel. BMC Genom. 13(507): 39. dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-507 In: BMC Genomics. BioMed Central: London. e-ISSN 1471-2164

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VLIZ: Open access 257627 [ download pdf ]

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Trefwoorden

Marien/Kust; Brak water; Zoet water

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; European eel; Transcriptome; Microarrays; Pollution

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Pujolar, J.M. Marino, I.AM Milan, M. Coppe, A. Maes, G.E.	Capoccioni, F. Ciccotti, E. Bervoets, L. Covaci, A. Belpaire, C.	Cramb, G. Patarnello, T. Bargelloni, L. Bortoluzzi, S. Zane, L.

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Abstract

BackgroundGenomic and transcriptomic approaches have the potential for unveiling the genome-wide response to environmental perturbations. The abundance of the catadromous European eel (Anguilla anguilla) stock has been declining since the 1980s probably due to a combination of anthropogenic and climatic factors. In this paper, we explore the transcriptomic dynamics between individuals from high (river Tiber, Italy) and low pollution (lake Bolsena, Italy) environments, which were measured for 36 PCBs, several organochlorine pesticides and brominated flame retardants and nine metals.ResultsTo this end, we first (i) updated the European eel transcriptome using deep sequencing data with a total of 640,040 reads assembled into 44,896 contigs (Eeelbase release 2.0), and (ii) developed a transcriptomic platform for global gene expression profiling in the critically endangered European eel of about 15,000 annotated contigs, which was applied to detect differentially expressed genes between polluted sites. Several detoxification genes related to metabolism of pollutants were upregulated in the highly polluted site, including genes that take part in phase I of the xenobiotic metabolism (CYP3A), phase II (glutathione-S-transferase) and oxidative stress (glutathione peroxidase). In addition, key genes in the mitochondrial respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation were down-regulated at the Tiber site relative to the Bolsena site.ConclusionsTogether with the induced high expression of detoxification genes, the suggested lowered expression of genes supposedly involved in metabolism suggests that pollution may also be associated with decreased respiratory and energy production.

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