Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2021, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (6): 111-119.doi: 10.11978/2020143CSTR: 32234.14.2020143

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Difference in gene expression of Aiptasia pulchella after albino recovery

ZHANG Qian(), YAN Hao, WANG Lu()   

  1. Oceanography Institute of Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
  • Received:2020-12-04 Revised:2021-02-24 Online:2021-11-10 Published:2021-02-25
  • Contact: WANG Lu E-mail:zhangqian@mju.edu.cn;607wanglu@mju.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Fujian Province Young and Middle-aged Teacher Education Research Project(JT180386);Fujian Natural Science Foundation Project(2020J01855)

Abstract:

Anemone bleaching can be defined generally as a decline in the population of the symbiotic algae, a reduction in the pigment content of the algae, or both. In order to study the molecular mechanism of Aiptasia pulchella during bleaching and recovered phage affected by chronic heat stress, transcriptome analysis by Illumina Hi-seq of bleaching and recovered A. pulchella was carried out on 50109686 and 43163786 clean reads, which were annotated as 24565 and 24157 unigenes, respectively. The results of comparative transcriptome analysis showed that there were 214 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), including 101 that were significantly highly expressed in bleaching A. pulchella and 113 in recovered A. pulchella. These genes were mainly involved in DNA replication, metabolism, ion transport, and collagen. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) of all 28, 050 expressed genes showed that collagen and ion transport were enriched in bleaching A. pulchella, while nucleotide repair was enriched in recovered A. pulchella. We speculate that these biological processes may play an important role in the bleaching and recovering phases of anemone. The main findings obtained in this study preliminarily reveal the molecular mechanism of adaptive regulation of anemone holobiont after symbiotic imbalance, providing a theoretical basis for the adaptive mechanism of anemone and coral symbiosis system in response to environmental changes.

Key words: Aiptasia pulchella, Transcriptome, Bleaching, Recovery after bleaching

CLC Number: 

  • Q953