phasing of muscle gene expression with fasting-induced recovery growth in atlantic salmon定相的肌肉基因表达与大西洋鲑鱼fasting-induced恢复增长.pdfVIP

Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Research Open Access Phasing of muscle gene expression with fasting-induced recovery growth in Atlantic salmon 1 2 1 Neil I Bower , Richard G Taylor and Ian A Johnston* Address: 1Gatty Marine Laboratory, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 8LB, UK and 2EWOS Innovation, 4335 Dirdal, Norway Email: Neil I Bower - nib@st-andrews.ac.uk; Richard G Taylor - Richard.Taylor@; Ian A Johnston* - iaj@st-andrews.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 24 August 2009 Received: 7 May 2009 Accepted: 24 August 2009 Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6:18 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-18 This article is available from: /content/6/1/18 © 2009 Bower et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Many fish species experience long periods of fasting in nature often associated with seasonal reductions in water temperature and prey availability or spawning migrations. During periods of nutrient restriction, changes in metabolism occur to provide cellular energy via catabolic processes. Muscle is particularly affected by prolonged fasting as myofibrillar proteins act as a major energy source. To investigate t