Journal of Tianjin Agricultural University ›› 2022, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 75-85.doi: 10.19640/j.cnki.jtau.2022.04.015

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Research progress and prospect of behavioral ecology and related transcriptomics of sea cucumber

Fan Xinhao, Sun Mingli, Zhou WenliCorresponding Author   

  1. College of Fisheries, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin 300392, China
  • Received:2021-04-07 Online:2022-12-30 Published:2023-01-03

Abstract: Behavioral ecology is a discipline that studies the evolutionary basis of animal behavior due to ecological pressure. After studying the four problems that need to be solved and the direct causes, ontogeny, survival value and systematics of animal behavior, behavioral ecology emerges from ethology. Studying the causes and laws of these behaviors can help us better understand self-discipline and protect animals. Transcriptomics is a science that studies all transcripts of a specific cell, tissue or organ at a specific stage of growth and development or under a certain physiological condition. Different from the relatively stable genome, transcriptomics will change with the change of growth and development stage, physiological state and external environment. Therefore, we can study the mechanism of biological growth and development, stress physiology, disease resistance and immunity through transcriptome analysis. The behavioral research of Apostichopus japonicus is of great significance for improving the production management mode, improving the breeding mode, improving the harvesting efficiency, designing the harvesting facilities and investigating. The transcriptomics of Apostichopus japonicus is more like a key, which can better help us open the door of behavioral research, help us better understand the causes and regulatory mechanism of Apostichopus japonicus behavior, and make more efficient use of Apostichopus japonicus behavior for production and breeding. In this paper, the research status on different behaviors of Apostichopus japonicus, such as movement, feeding, clustering, stress, reproduction, competition and hibernation, was reviewed, and the transcriptomics related to the behavior of Apostichopus japonicus was summarized, so as to provide reference for the behavioral ecology and transcriptomics of Apostichopus japonicus in the future.

Key words: Apostichopus japonicus, behavioral ecology, transcriptomics

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