Journal article
Transcriptome Gene Expression and It's Relation to Muscle Performance in Anolis Lizards
The FASEB journal, Vol.33(S1), pp.545.3-545.3
04/2019
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.545.3
Abstract
Animal muscles are exceptionally diverse in structure and function as they meet a variety of demands for an individual to survive. Whole organisms must adapt to their environments. However, specific muscles vary to best suit each muscle's role in promoting organism survival; differences in gene expression among muscles likely accounts for this variation. Anolis lizards, a species that has undergone adaptive radiation, live in a wide range of habitats and ecotypes to which each species has had to evolve appropriately to survive. Unsurprisingly, the muscle performance of these lizards (e.g., twitch time and peak contractile velocity) varies among muscle types. Specifically, the performance of jaw and leg muscles, strongly selected for because of their importance for survival (e.g., to escape predation and to bite prey), differ between the muscles both across and within individuals. Here, we use RNA‐seq to measure the underlying molecular mechanisms generating these differences. Using gene networks, we are able to differentiate the two types of muscles. The observed discrepancy in gene expression are expected to explain the divergence in performance we observe between the muscles. Determining the underlying differences in gene expression between muscles and individuals will help explain how performance metrics (e.g., twitch time and peak contractile velocity) change over time and how the ecology and evolution of an individual influences it.
Support or Funding Information
University of South Dakota, College of Arts and Sciences and CURCS mini‐grant
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Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transcriptome Gene Expression and It's Relation to Muscle Performance in Anolis Lizards
- Creators
- Luke Brendan Smith - The University of South DakotaChristopher Anderson - The University of South DakotaThomas Roberts - Brown UniversityErliang Zeng - The University of IowaAndrea Liebl - The University of South Dakota
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The FASEB journal, Vol.33(S1), pp.545.3-545.3
- Publisher
- The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- DOI
- 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.545.3
- ISSN
- 0892-6638
- eISSN
- 1530-6860
- Number of pages
- 1
- Grant note
- CURCS University of South Dakota, College of Arts and Sciences
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2019
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Biostatistics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Dental Research
- Record Identifier
- 9984071930402771
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