Concomitant downregulation of neuropeptide precursors in a marine snail with consecutive sexual maturation after a nuclear disaster in Japan

Consecutive sexual maturation (CSM), an abnormal reproductive phenomenon of a marine snail, Reishia clavigera, has occurred since 2017 in the vicinity of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the nuclear disaster there. To determine the molecular basis for CSM, we conducted transcriptome profiling in the ganglia of normal and CSM snails. Comparative gene expression profiling analysis of RNA-seq data for the cengtral ganglia in the normal and consecutive sexual maturation of a marine snail.