Dicentrarchus labrax Transcriptome or Gene expression

In addition to digestion and feed absorption, the intestinal tract is involved in a variety of other physiological functions, such as water and electrolyte balance, endocrine regulation of digestion and metabolism, and immunity. The use of novel fish aquafeeds can have an effect on intestine integrity and function, and differences become more evident in challenging scenarios. In this context, the characterization of the intestine transcriptome of a fish of economic importance as the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) becomes a valuable tool in order to design a functional map of the main genes and functions involved in the different sections of its intestine tract. For this purpose, a goal of this work was to generate a large amount of transcriptome data from intestine sections of sea bass by means of the construction of next-generation sequencing libraries. The obtained sequences, combined with other from diverse public and private repositories, were used to construct a reliable assembly database (www.nutrigroup-iats.org/seabassdb).