Microarray data from zebrafish embryos (ZFE) exposed (for 48-96 hr periods and assessed 8 days post-fertilization) to oil emulsions collected from GoM shoreline sites following the Deepwater Horizon blowout.

Zebrafish embryos/larvae are a choice model system for studying early stages of vertebrate development and how these stages can be perturbed by environmental stressors. Petrochemical combustion products elicit developmental toxicity that is associated with transcriptome changes in zebrafish embryos (ZFE). We used microarrays to characterize transcriptome changes in ZFE that had been exposed in the laboratory to oil emulsions collected from the GoM shoreline, ~9 weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout.

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