image: An adult crown-of-thorns starfish in the wild on the Great Barrier Reef. Male and female transcriptomes of seven somatic tissues were analysed in the summer and winter. Four of these, orange-tipped spines, purple papulae, brown skin and orange-white tube feet, can been seen in this photo.
Credit: Sandie Degnan (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Gene expression of a tropical starfish fluctuates between the seasons
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Article Title: Seasonal tissue-specific gene expression in wild crown-of-thorns starfish reveals reproductive and stress-related transcriptional systems
Author Countries: Australia
Funding: This research was supported by a Linkage Project grant (LP170101049) from the Australian Research Council to BMD, DJC, SMD and CKW. DJC and CKW are supported by a Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia (2009564) and by access to the facilities of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science (CE200100012) and an ARC Future Fellowship (FFT220100583). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS Biology
Method of Research
Observational study
Subject of Research
Animals
COI Statement
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.