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RNA-Seq reveals complex genetic response to deepwater horizon oil release in Fundulus grandis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Genomics, September 2012
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Title
RNA-Seq reveals complex genetic response to deepwater horizon oil release in Fundulus grandis
Published in
BMC Genomics, September 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2164-13-474
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Tzintzuni I Garcia, Yingjia Shen, Douglas Crawford, Marjorie F Oleksiak, Andrew Whitehead, Ronald B Walter

Abstract

The release of oil resulting from the blowout of the Deepwater Horizon (DH) drilling platform was one of the largest in history discharging more than 189 million gallons of oil and subject to widespread application of oil dispersants. This event impacted a wide range of ecological habitats with a complex mix of pollutants whose biological impact is still not yet fully understood. To better understand the effects on a vertebrate genome, we studied gene expression in the salt marsh minnow Fundulus grandis, which is local to the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico and is a sister species of the ecotoxicological model Fundulus heteroclitus. To assess genomic changes, we quantified mRNA expression using high throughput sequencing technologies (RNA-Seq) in F. grandis populations in the marshes and estuaries impacted by DH oil release. This application of RNA-Seq to a non-model, wild, and ecologically significant organism is an important evaluation of the technology to quickly assess similar events in the future.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Chile 2 2%
France 2 2%
Italy 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Unknown 123 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 36 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 26%
Student > Master 16 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 20 15%
Unknown 11 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 72 54%
Environmental Science 19 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Neuroscience 2 2%
Other 7 5%
Unknown 17 13%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 September 2012.
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