Contrasting transcriptome response to thermal stress in two key zooplankton species, Calanus finmarchicus and C. glacialis
Creators
- 1. Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, University of Nordland, 8049 Bodø, Norway
- 2. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
- 3. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK
- 4. Norwegian Sequencing Centre, Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Kirkeveien 166, 0407 Oslo, Norway
Description
Climate change has already led to the range expansion of warm-water plankton assemblages in the northeast Atlantic and the corresponding range contraction of colder-water species. The temperate copepod Calanus finmarchicus is predicted to shift farther northward into polar waters traditionally dominated by the arctic copepod C. glacialis. To identify temperature-mediated changes in gene expression that may be critical for the thermal acclimation and resilience of the 2 Calanus spp., we conducted a whole transcriptome profiling using RNA-seq on an Ion Torrent platform. Transcriptome responses of C. finmarchicus and C. glacialis from Disko Bay, west Greenland, were investigated under realistic thermal stresses (at +5, +10 and +15°C) for 4 h and 6 d. C. finmarchicus showed a strong response to temperature and duration of stress, involving up-regulation of genes related to protein folding, transcription, translation and metabolism. In sharp contrast, C. glacialis displayed only low-magnitude changes in gene expression in response to temperature and duration of stress. Differences in the thermal responses of the 2 species, particularly the lack of thermal stress response in C. glacialis, are in line with laboratory and field observations and suggest a vulnerability of C. glacialis to climate change.
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