Cargando…

Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish

Common strains of wildtype zebrafish (Danio rerio) have unique genomic features including SNPs and CNV, but strain information often goes unreported in the literature. As a result, the confounding effects of interstrain variation makes repetition of studies in zebrafish challenging. Here we analyze...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Holden, Lindsay A., Brown, Kim H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29555936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23129-4
_version_ 1783307756606849024
author Holden, Lindsay A.
Brown, Kim H.
author_facet Holden, Lindsay A.
Brown, Kim H.
author_sort Holden, Lindsay A.
collection PubMed
description Common strains of wildtype zebrafish (Danio rerio) have unique genomic features including SNPs and CNV, but strain information often goes unreported in the literature. As a result, the confounding effects of interstrain variation makes repetition of studies in zebrafish challenging. Here we analyze hepatic mRNA expression patterns between three common zebrafish strains (AB, Tuebingen (TU), and WIK) using Agilent 4 × 44 K gene expression microarrays to establish baseline mRNA expression across strains and between sexes. We observed wide variation in sex-specific gene expression within AB and WIK strains (141 genes in AB and 67 genes in WIK), but no significant variation between sexes within TU. After partitioning the dataset into male and female subsets, we detected 421 unique mRNA transcripts with statistically significant differential expression; 269 mRNA transcripts varied between males, 212 mRNA transcripts varied between females, and 59 mRNA transcripts varied across the three strains, regardless of sex. It is not surprising that mRNA expression profiles differ between sexes and strains, but it is imperative to characterize the differences. These results highlight the complexity of variation within zebrafish and underscore the value of this model system as a valid representation of normal variation present in other species, including humans.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-5859126
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2018
publisher Nature Publishing Group UK
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-58591262018-03-20 Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish Holden, Lindsay A. Brown, Kim H. Sci Rep Article Common strains of wildtype zebrafish (Danio rerio) have unique genomic features including SNPs and CNV, but strain information often goes unreported in the literature. As a result, the confounding effects of interstrain variation makes repetition of studies in zebrafish challenging. Here we analyze hepatic mRNA expression patterns between three common zebrafish strains (AB, Tuebingen (TU), and WIK) using Agilent 4 × 44 K gene expression microarrays to establish baseline mRNA expression across strains and between sexes. We observed wide variation in sex-specific gene expression within AB and WIK strains (141 genes in AB and 67 genes in WIK), but no significant variation between sexes within TU. After partitioning the dataset into male and female subsets, we detected 421 unique mRNA transcripts with statistically significant differential expression; 269 mRNA transcripts varied between males, 212 mRNA transcripts varied between females, and 59 mRNA transcripts varied across the three strains, regardless of sex. It is not surprising that mRNA expression profiles differ between sexes and strains, but it is imperative to characterize the differences. These results highlight the complexity of variation within zebrafish and underscore the value of this model system as a valid representation of normal variation present in other species, including humans. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5859126/ /pubmed/29555936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23129-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Article
Holden, Lindsay A.
Brown, Kim H.
Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish
title Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish
title_full Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish
title_fullStr Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish
title_full_unstemmed Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish
title_short Baseline mRNA expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish
title_sort baseline mrna expression differs widely between common laboratory strains of zebrafish
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29555936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23129-4
work_keys_str_mv AT holdenlindsaya baselinemrnaexpressiondifferswidelybetweencommonlaboratorystrainsofzebrafish
AT brownkimh baselinemrnaexpressiondifferswidelybetweencommonlaboratorystrainsofzebrafish