Publications by authors named "Pamela C Jensen"
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- Tanner crab is important for the economy but is facing threats from ocean warming and a disease caused by the dinoflagellate Hematodinium, leading to concerns about its survival.
- Researchers created RNA-seq libraries from crab samples with different infection statuses and temperatures to study gene expression, revealing that temperature affects genes related to lipid storage, oxidative stress, and morphogenesis.
- The findings suggest that the effects of temperature on gene expression may influence the crab's energy allocation and immune response, shedding light on how the disease could impact crab physiology as ocean temperatures rise.
Hematodinium is a genus of parasitic dinoflagellates that infects crustaceans worldwide including Tanner crabs Chionoecetes bairdi and snow crabs C. opilio in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The present study describes the optimization of a PCR-based assay for the detection and monitoring of Hematodinium sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe isolation, PCR amplification, and descriptive statistics of six microsatellite loci are described for the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister. Also reported is the inheritance of these loci in two families obtained from artificial crosses in the laboratory. All six loci conform to expectations under Mendelian inheritance and there is no evidence for linkage between any of the loci.
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