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Ripley DM, Garner T, Hook SA, Veríssimo A, Grunow B, Moritz T, Clayton P, Shiels HA, Stevens A. Warming during embryogenesis induces a lasting transcriptomic signature in fishes. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 902:165954. [PMID: 37536606 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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Exposure to elevated temperatures during embryogenesis can influence the plasticity of tissues in later life. Despite these long-term changes in plasticity, few differentially expressed genes are ever identified, suggesting that the developmental programming of later life plasticity may occur through the modulation of other aspects of transcriptomic architecture, such as gene network organisation. Here, we use network modelling approaches to demonstrate that warm temperatures during embryonic development (developmental warming) have consistent effects in later life on the organisation of transcriptomic networks across four diverse species of fishes: Scyliorhinus canicula, Danio rerio, Dicentrarchus labrax, and Gasterosteus aculeatus. The transcriptomes of developmentally warmed fishes are characterised by an increased entropy of their pairwise gene interaction networks, implying a less structured, more 'random' set of gene interactions. We also show that, in zebrafish subject to developmental warming, the entropy of an individual gene within a network is associated with that gene's probability of expression change during temperature acclimation in later life. However, this association is absent in animals reared under 'control' conditions. Thus, the thermal environment experienced during embryogenesis can alter transcriptomic organisation in later life, and these changes may influence an individual's responsiveness to future temperature challenges.
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- Daniel M Ripley
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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- Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
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- Fish Growth Physiology, Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany
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- Deutsches Meeresmuseum, Katharinenberg 14-20, 18439 Stralsund, Germany; Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Straße 3, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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- Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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Raynal RS, Schwanz LE, Riley JL, Umbers KDL. Genetic and environmental drivers of colour and pattern in the Australian jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus). J Evol Biol 2022; 35:1229-1239. [PMID: 35861703 PMCID: PMC9544122 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The underlying drivers of variation in the colouration (colour and pattern) of animals can be genetic, non‐genetic, or more likely, a combination of both. Understanding the role of heritable genetic elements, as well as non‐genetic factors such as age, habitat or temperature, in shaping colouration can provide insight into the evolution and function of these traits, as well as the speed of response to changing environments. This project examined the genetic and non‐genetic drivers of continuous variation in colouration in a lizard, the jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus). We leveraged a large captive experiment that manipulated parental and offspring thermal environment to simultaneously estimate the genetic and non‐genetic drivers of variation in colouration. We found that the overall brightness, the elongation of the longitudinal stripes on the dorsum and the contrast between light and dark patches of the pattern were all heritable. Colouration varied according to the age of the hatchling; however, the thermal environment of neither the parents nor offspring contributed significantly to colouration. It appears that developmental plasticity and maternal effects associated with temperature are not important drivers of variation in our measures of colouration.
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- Rebecca S Raynal
- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.,Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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Schwanz LE, Crawford-Ash J, Gale T. Context dependence of transgenerational plasticity: the influence of parental temperature depends on offspring environment and sex. Oecologia 2020; 194:391-401. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04783-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Refsnider JM, Clifton IT, Vazquez TK. Developmental plasticity of thermal ecology traits in reptiles: Trends, potential benefits, and research needs. J Therm Biol 2019; 84:74-82. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 05/28/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Parental Effects and Climate Change: Will Avian Incubation Behavior Shield Embryos from Increasing Environmental Temperatures? Integr Comp Biol 2019; 59:1068-1080. [DOI: 10.1093/icb/icz083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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A major driver of wildlife responses to climate change will include non-genomic effects, like those mediated through parental behavior and physiology (i.e., parental effects). Parental effects can influence lifetime reproductive success and survival, and thus population-level processes. However, the extent to which parental effects will contribute to population persistence or declines in response to climate change is not well understood. These effects may be substantial for species that exhibit extensive parental care behaviors, like birds. Environmental temperature is important in shaping avian incubation behavior, and these factors interact to determine the thermal conditions embryos are exposed to during development, and subsequently avian phenotypes and secondary sex ratios. In this article, we argue that incubation behavior may be an important mediator of avian responses to climate change, we compare incubation strategies of two species adapted to different thermal environments nesting in extreme heat, and we present a simple model that estimates changes in egg temperature based on these incubation patterns and predicted increases in maximum daily air temperature. We demonstrate that the predicted increase in air temperature by 2100 in the central USA will increase temperatures that eggs experience during afternoon off-bouts and the proportion of nests exposed to lethal temperatures. To better understand how species and local adaptations and behavioral-plasticity of incubation behavior will contribute to population responses to climate change comparisons are needed across more avian populations, species, and thermal landscapes.
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Cavieres G, Alruiz JM, Medina NR, Bogdanovich JM, Bozinovic F. Transgenerational and within-generation plasticity shape thermal performance curves. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:2072-2082. [PMID: 30847093 PMCID: PMC6392392 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Revised: 12/16/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Thermal performance curves (TPCs) compute the effects of temperature on the performance of ectotherms and are frequently used to predict the effect of environmental conditions and currently, climate change, on organismal vulnerability and sensitivity. Using Drosophila melanogaster as an animal model, we examined how different thermal environments affected the shape of the performance curve and their parameters. We measured the climbing speed as a measure of locomotor performance in adult flies and tested the ontogenetic and transgenerational effects of thermal environment on TPC shape. Parents and offspring were reared at 28 ± 0ºC (28C), 28 ± 4ºC (28V), and 30 ± 0ºC (30C). We found that both, environmental thermal variability (28V) and high temperature (30C) experienced during early ontogeny shaped the fruit fly TPC sensitivity. Flies reared at variable thermal environments shifted the TPC to the right and increased heat tolerance. Flies held at high and constant temperature exhibited lower maximum performance than flies reared at the variable thermal environment. Furthermore, these effects were extended to the next generation. The parental thermal environment had a significative effect on TPC and its parameters. Indeed, flies reared at 28V whose parents were held at a high and constant temperature (30C) had a lower heat tolerance than F1 of flies reared at 28C or 28V. Also, offspring of flies reared at variable thermal environment (28V) reached the maximum performance at a higher temperature than offspring of flies reared at 28C or 30C. Consequently, since TPC parameters are not fixed, we suggest cautiousness when using TPCs to predict the impact of climate change on natural populations.
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- Grisel Cavieres
- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Departamento de Ecologia, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile
- CCT-Mendoza CONICET, Grupo de Investigaciones de la Biodiversidad, CONICET Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de Zonas Áridas Mendoza Argentina
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Departamento de Ecologia, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Departamento de Ecologia, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Departamento de Ecologia, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Departamento de Ecologia, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile
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Warner DA, Du WG, Georges A. Introduction to the special issue-Developmental plasticity in reptiles: Physiological mechanisms and ecological consequences. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART 2018; 329:153-161. [PMID: 29956505 DOI: 10.1002/jez.2199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Scientific interest in developmental plasticity spans many disciplines, and research on reptiles has provided many insights into this field. We highlight these contributions, review the field's history, and introduce the special issue on this topic .
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- Daniel A Warner
- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
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