Gene expression zooplankton

Monitoring gene expression of zooplankton Due to their rapid responses to environmental variation, planktonic organisms are used as bio-indicators of ecosystem changes. Most zooplankton monitoring studies focus mainly on variability in biodiversity, densities and biomass. Advances in practical, cost-effective molecular approaches can help overcome the issues with morphology-based biomonitoring. In a first step, we want to understand how the gene expression in zooplankton fluctuates over the seasons. Therefore, we monitor the gene expression of the dominant zooplankter, the calanoid copepod Temora longicornis, over several years, making use of the infrastructure of the research vessel Simon Stevin. We compared gene expression results with in situ determined biotic and abiotic patterns.

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