Potential of the hepatic transcriptome expression profile of the striped seabream (Lithognathus mormyrus) as an environmental biomarker.

The potential of the hepatic transcriptome expression profile evaluated in a sentinel feral fish to serve as an environmental biomarker was examined. Expression profiles of Lithognathus mormyrus individuals were exhibited using cDNA microarray and were related to the set of exposure conditions at their sites and dates of collection. Expression profiles of individual fish were reasonably clustered according to the fish samples.