Exposing local adaptation: Synergistic stressors elicit population-specific lactate dehydrogenase-B (ldh-b) expression profiles in Australian barramundi, Lates calcarifer

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 171-178

  Edmunds, Richard C ^a,b,c   Smith Keune, Carolyn ^a   van Herwerden, Lynne ^a   Fulton, Christopher J ^b   Jerry, Dean R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic challenge; Local adaptation; Thermal stress; Thermal tolerance

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; LATITUDE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

LATES CALCARIFER;

EID: 84855302141     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-011-0208-5     Document Type: Article

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