Seasonal transcriptome profile across three different tissues of the Andean Killifish Orestias ascotanensis
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2025-06-10
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Springer Nature
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2052‑4463
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The Andean killifish Orestias ascotanensis inhabits the high-altitude Ascotán Salt Pan, an environment with variable salinity, high UV exposure, low oxygen, and extreme daily temperature fluctuations. These conditions make it an excellent model for studying high-altitude fish biology. However, the transcriptomic responses of O. ascotanensis to seasonal acclimation remain unexplored. To investigate seasonal and tissue-specific transcriptomic profiles, RNA-seq was performed on 42 libraries from gills, skin, and muscle tissues of 14 individuals collected in summer (n = 7) and winter (n = 7). Each library had a median of 105 million reads. Principal component analysis revealed strong tissue-specific expression, and seasonal differential expression analyses identified significant transcriptomic changes within each tissue. Additionally, a bioinformatics pipeline identified 10,365 high-confidence long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), predicted by at least three computational tools. Compared to protein-coding genes, lncRNAs exhibited higher tissue specificity, with a predominance of monoexonic structures and shorter exon lengths. This dataset provides the first comprehensive view of seasonal mRNA and lncRNA expression in O. ascotanensis tissues.
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This work was supported by grants from ANID-FONDECYT 1211026 (MM); Millennium Institute Center for Genome Regulation ICN2021_044 (MM); Millennium Nucleus of Neuroepigenetics and Plasticity NCN2023_032 (MM); FONDECYT de postdoctorado 3190720 and FONDECYT de Iniciación 11220698 (RMA). The authors thank Dr. Miguel Allende (Universidad de Chile) for his assistance during the initial stages of this study.
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Scientific Data, Vol.12, N°976 (2025) p. 1-11.
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Pez killi andino, Orestias ascotanensis, Perfiles transcriptómicos estacionales y específicos de tejido
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Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Chile (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 CL)