Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius

We studied the diel expression pattern of PAX6 (a structural gene that is commonly involved in the eye development and photoreception of eye forming animals) and the effects of light and covering behavior on PAX6 expression in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. We confirmed that aphotic...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Chong, Ji, Nanjing, Sun, Ping, Feng, Wenping, Wei, Jing, Chang, Yaqing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25333874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110895
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author Zhao, Chong
Ji, Nanjing
Sun, Ping
Feng, Wenping
Wei, Jing
Chang, Yaqing
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description We studied the diel expression pattern of PAX6 (a structural gene that is commonly involved in the eye development and photoreception of eye forming animals) and the effects of light and covering behavior on PAX6 expression in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. We confirmed that aphotic condition significantly reduced covering behavior in S. intermedius. The diel expression pattern of PAX6 was significantly different in S. intermedius under photic and aphotic conditions. The gene expression of PAX6 significantly deceased in covered S. intermedius both under natural light and in darkness. The present finding provides valuable insight into the probable link between covering and PAX6 expression of sea urchins. Further studies are required to investigate the detailed expression network of light detection involved genes in order to fully reveal the molecular mechanism of the light-induced covering behavior of sea urchins.
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spelling pubmed-42049922014-10-27 Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius Zhao, Chong Ji, Nanjing Sun, Ping Feng, Wenping Wei, Jing Chang, Yaqing PLoS One Research Article We studied the diel expression pattern of PAX6 (a structural gene that is commonly involved in the eye development and photoreception of eye forming animals) and the effects of light and covering behavior on PAX6 expression in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. We confirmed that aphotic condition significantly reduced covering behavior in S. intermedius. The diel expression pattern of PAX6 was significantly different in S. intermedius under photic and aphotic conditions. The gene expression of PAX6 significantly deceased in covered S. intermedius both under natural light and in darkness. The present finding provides valuable insight into the probable link between covering and PAX6 expression of sea urchins. Further studies are required to investigate the detailed expression network of light detection involved genes in order to fully reveal the molecular mechanism of the light-induced covering behavior of sea urchins. Public Library of Science 2014-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4204992/ /pubmed/25333874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110895 Text en © 2014 Zhao et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Zhao, Chong
Ji, Nanjing
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Feng, Wenping
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Chang, Yaqing
Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius
title Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius
title_full Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius
title_fullStr Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius
title_full_unstemmed Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius
title_short Effects of Light and Covering Behavior on PAX6 Expression in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius
title_sort effects of light and covering behavior on pax6 expression in the sea urchin strongylocentrotus intermedius
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25333874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110895
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