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SynthesisPloS one2015

Meta-Analysis of Microarray Data of Rainbow Trout Fry Gonad Differentiation Modulated by Ethynylestradiol.

Sophie Depiereux, Florence Le Gac, Bertrand De Meulder, Michael Pierre, Raphaël Helaers, Yann Guiguen, Patrick Kestemont, Eric Depiereux

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Synthesis in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Sophie DepiereuxUniversity of Namur (UNamur), Research Unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology (URBE-NARILIS), 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium.
Florence Le GacInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA-LPGP, UPR1037, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes, France.
Bertrand De MeulderUniversity of Namur (UNamur), Research Unit in Molecular Biology (URBM-NARILIS), 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium.
Michael PierreUniversity of Namur (UNamur), Research Unit in Molecular Biology (URBM-NARILIS), 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium.
Raphaël HelaersUniversity of Namur (UNamur), Research Unit in Molecular Biology (URBM-NARILIS), 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium.
Yann GuiguenInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA-LPGP, UPR1037, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes, France.
Patrick KestemontUniversity of Namur (UNamur), Research Unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology (URBE-NARILIS), 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium.
Eric DepiereuxUniversity of Namur (UNamur), Research Unit in Molecular Biology (URBM-NARILIS), 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium.
University of Namur · BEFish Physiology and Genomics Institute · FRInstitut de Biologia Evolutiva · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sex differentiation in fish is a highly labile process easily reversed by the use of exogenous hormonal treatment and has led to environmental concerns since low doses of estrogenic molecules can adversely impact fish reproduction. The goal of this study was to identify pathways altered by treatment with ethynylestradiol (EE2) in developing fish and to find new target genes to be tested further for their possible role in male-to-female sex transdifferentiation. To this end, we have successfully adapted a previously developed bioinformatics workflow to a meta-analysis of two datasets studying sex reversal following exposure to EE2 in juvenile rainbow trout. The meta-analysis consisted of retrieving the intersection of the top gene lists generated for both datasets, performed at different levels of stringency. The intersecting gene lists, enriched in true positive differentially expressed genes (DEGs), were subjected to over-representation analysis (ORA) which allowed identifying several statistically significant enriched pathways altered by EE2 treatment and several new candidate pathways, such as progesterone-mediated oocyte maturation and PPAR signalling. Moreover, several relevant key genes potentially implicated in the early transdifferentiation process were selected. Altogether, the results show that EE2 has a great effect on gene expression in juvenile rainbow trout. The feminization process seems to result from the altered transcription of genes implicated in normal female gonad differentiation, resulting in expression similar to that observed in normal females (i.e. the repression of key testicular markers cyp17a1, cyp11b, tbx1), as well as from other genes (including transcription factors) that respond specifically to the EE2 treatment. The results also showed that the bioinformatics workflow can be applied to different types of microarray platforms and could be generalized to (eco)toxicogenomics studies for environmental risk assessment purposes.

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AnimalsEthinyl EstradiolGonadsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOncorhynchus mykissSex DifferentiationEthinyl Estradiol

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PMID26379055
PMCPMC4574709
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