Surviving in a toxic world: Transcriptomics and gene expression profiling in response to environmental pollution in the critically endangered European eel

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pujolar, Jose M ^a   Marino, Ilaria A M ^a   Milan, Massimo ^a   Coppe, Alessandro ^a   Maes, Gregory E ^b   Capoccioni, Fabrizio ^c   Ciccotti, Eleonora ^c   Bervoets, Lieven ^d   Covaci, Adrian ^d   Belpaire, Claude ^e   Cramb, Gordon ^f   Patarnello, Tomaso ^a   Bargelloni, Luca ^a   Bortoluzzi, Stefania ^a   Zane, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; European eel; Microarrays; Pollution; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 3A; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP3A GENE; DETOXIFICATION; DOWN REGULATION; EEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE GENE; GLUTATHIONE S TRANSFERASE GENE; ITALY; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP3A; EELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FLAME RETARDANTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PESTICIDES; TRANSCRIPTOME; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 84866560252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-507     Document Type: Article

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