Characterizing transcriptome changes in gill tissue of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) for waterless preservation

The combined method with high oxygen filling under low temperature and waterless condition is suggested to be a more effective strategy to keep fish alive during turbot transportation. To investigate the biological mechanism of turbot, when turbot was subjected to waterless treatment under different oxygen conditions (water, air and oxygen), the global expression profiling of the gill tissues was performed by transcriptome analysis using Illumina HiSeq 4000 platform. The results showed that a total of 104,886 unigenes were detected, and differential expression analysis revealed 662 differentially expressed genes (322 upregulated (fold >2) and 340 downregulated (fold