AVC Contact: Spencer Greenwood, AVCLSC
Start date: Fall 2007
Projected completion date: Spring 2012
   
This project will use the tools of genomics for the development and validation of moult and reproductive indicators in the American Lobster. It will begin by building a ‘reference library’ of genes expressed (‘turned on’) at different stages of the moult cycle, different stages of sexual maturity in female lobsters and lobsters infected with different pathogens. The goals are to identify genes that should provide consistent biomarkers of moult stage, reproductive status and immune response genes in lobsters. This is a multi-institutional project with collaborators from Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (D. Towle & A. Christie), the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (J. Shields), Faculty of Science , UPEI (Y. Wang), and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Region (P. Byrne).

Beale KM, Towle DW, Jayasundara N, Smith CM, Shields JD, Small HJ, Greenwood SJ. 2008. Anti-lipopolysaccharide factors in the American lobster Homarus americanus: Molecular characterization and transcriptional response to Vibrio fluvialis challenge. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, in press 17/07/2008

Publications for Aerococcus viridans and Anophryoides haemophila