posted on 2012-07-02, 11:11authored byPaul J. Seear, Geraint A. Tarling, Gavin Burns, William P. Goodall-Copestake, Edward Gaten, Özge Ozkaya, Ezio Rosato
All crustaceans periodically moult to renew their exoskeleton. In krill this involves partial digestion and resorption of the old exoskeleton and synthesis of new cuticle. Molecular events that underlie the moult cycle are poorly understood in calcifying crustaceans and even less so in non-calcifying organisms such as krill. To address this we constructed an Antarctic krill cDNA microarray in order to generate gene expression profiles across the moult cycle and identify possible activation pathways.
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BMC Genomics, 2010, 11:582
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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY/School of Biological Sciences/Department of Genetics