Transcriptional profiling of reproductive development lipid storage and molting throughout the last juvenile stage of the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus

摘要

IntroductionCalanus finmarchicus, a highly abundant copepod that is an important primary consumer in North Atlantic ecosystems, has a flexible life history in which copepods in the last juvenile developmental stage (fifth copepodid, C5) may either delay maturation and enter diapause or molt directly into adults. The factors that regulate this developmental plasticity are poorly understood, and few tools have been developed to assess the physiological condition of individual copepods.