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Giraud-Billoud M, Moreira DC, Minari M, Andreyeva A, Campos ÉG, Carvajalino-Fernández JM, Istomina A, Michaelidis B, Niu C, Niu Y, Ondei L, Prokić M, Rivera-Ingraham GA, Sahoo D, Staikou A, Storey JM, Storey KB, Vega IA, Hermes-Lima M. REVIEW: Evidence supporting the 'preparation for oxidative stress' (POS) strategy in animals in their natural environment. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2024; 293:111626. [PMID: 38521444 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Revised: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024]
Abstract
Hypometabolism is a common strategy employed by resilient species to withstand environmental stressors that would be life-threatening for other organisms. Under conditions such as hypoxia/anoxia, temperature and salinity stress, or seasonal changes (e.g. hibernation, estivation), stress-tolerant species down-regulate pathways to decrease energy expenditures until the return of less challenging conditions. However, it is with the return of these more favorable conditions and the reactivation of basal metabolic rates that a strong increase of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) occurs, leading to oxidative stress. Over the last few decades, cases of species capable of enhancing antioxidant defenses during hypometabolic states have been reported across taxa and in response to a variety of stressors. Interpreted as an adaptive mechanism to counteract RONS formation during tissue hypometabolism and reactivation, this strategy was coined "Preparation for Oxidative Stress" (POS). Laboratory experiments have confirmed that over 100 species, spanning 9 animal phyla, apply this strategy to endure harsh environments. However, the challenge remains to confirm its occurrence in the natural environment and its wide applicability as a key survival element, through controlled experimentation in field and in natural conditions. Under such conditions, numerous confounding factors may complicate data interpretation, but this remains the only approach to provide an integrative look at the evolutionary aspects of ecophysiological adaptations. In this review, we provide an overview of representative cases where the POS strategy has been demonstrated among diverse species in natural environmental conditions, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of these results and conclusions.
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- Maximiliano Giraud-Billoud
- Instituto de Histología y Embriología de Mendoza (IHEM), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-CONICET, Mendoza 5500, Argentina; Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza 5500, Argentina; Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud-Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Villa Mercedes, San Luis 5730, Argentina.
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil; Research Center in Morphology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
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- A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Moscow 119991, Russia; Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg 194223, Russia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Adaptations to Extreme Environments and Global Change Biology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690041 Vladivostok, Russia
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Life Sciences, Dezhou University, Dezhou, China
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- Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Câmpus Central, 75132-903 Anápolis, GO, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Bulevar despota Stefana 142, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Southport 4215, Gold Coast, Queensland. Australia; UMR9190-MARBEC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, 34090, France
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- Post Graduate Department of Zoology, S.C.S. Autonomous College, Puri, Odis ha-752001, India
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- Laboratory of Marine and Terrestrial Animal Diversity, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Instituto de Histología y Embriología de Mendoza (IHEM), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-CONICET, Mendoza 5500, Argentina; Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza 5500, Argentina; Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza 5500, Argentina
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil.
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Staikou A, Sagonas K, Spanoudi O, Savvidou K, Nazli Z, Feidantsis K, Michaelidis B. Activities of antioxidant enzymes and Hsp levels in response to elevated temperature in land snail species with varied latitudinal distribution. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2024; 269:110908. [PMID: 37832630 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2023.110908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Revised: 10/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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Land snails occupy a variety of habitats, with differing temperature and humidity regimes and exhibit a wide span of adaptations, to withstand abiotic condition changes. The present work's aim was to examine the correlation of habitat's thermal adversity in different Mediterranean type habitats with the land snail's antioxidant and heat shock responses. For this purpose, snails of different species from populations along a north-south axis from the islands and mainland of Greece were exposed to elevated temperature and antioxidant enzyme activities, and Hsp70 and Hsp90 levels were determined in their tissues. The ATP, ADP, and AMP levels and the adenylate energy charge (AEC) were also determined. The comparison of protein levels and enzymatic activities across time intervals revealed significant differences for all factors examined. While the gradation pattern over time for a given factor was similar in all populations the absolute values over time differed. Catalase activity and the Hsp90 protein levels had the higher contribution in separating the different species and populations, followed by the activity of glutathione reductase and Hsp70 protein levels which contributed to a lesser degree. In general, populations from the southern part of their distribution in Greece tend to display a faster increase than northern populations in induction levels of all factors examined. Our data seem to be in line with the concept of preparation for oxidative stress (POS) while the changes in the AEC indicate an early preparation to cover the energy demand for the induction and synthesis of antioxidant enzymes and Hsps.
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- Alexandra Staikou
- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Hakobyan S, Ross P, Bayramyan N, Poghosyan A, Avetisyan A, Avagyan H, Hakobyan L, Abroyan L, Harutyunova L, Karalyan Z. Experimental models of ecological niches for african swine fever virus. Vet Microbiol 2022; 266:109365. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2022.109365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-021-03106-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Staikou A, Feidantsis K, Gkanatsiou O, Bibos MN, Hatziioannou M, Storey KB, Michaelidis B. Seasonal cellular stress phenomena and phenotypic plasticity in land snail Helix lucorum populations from different altitudes. J Exp Biol 2021; 224:273728. [PMID: 34796901 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Temperature, a major abiotic environmental factor, regulates various physiological functions in land snails and therefore determines their biogeographical distribution. Thus, species with different distributions may present different thermal tolerance limits. Additionally, the intense reactivation of snail metabolic rate upon arousal from hibernation or estivation may provoke stress. Land snails, Helix lucorum, display a wide altitudinal distribution resulting in populations being exposed to different seasonal temperature variations. The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression of heat shock proteins (Hsps), mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and proteins that are related to apoptosis (Bcl-2, ubiquitin), that have 'cytoprotective' roles and are also considered to be reliable indicators of stress because of their crucial role in maintaining cellular homeostasis. These proteins were assessed in H. lucorum individuals from two different populations, one at Axios (sea level, 0 m) and the other at Kokkinopilos (Olympus, 1250 m), as well as after mutual population exchanges, in order to find out whether the different responses of these stress-related proteins depend solely on the environmental temperature. The results showed seasonally altered levels in all studied proteins in the hepatopancreas and foot of snails, both among different populations and between the same populations exposed to varying altitudes. However, individuals of the same population in their native habitat or acclimatized to a different habitat showed a relatively similar pattern of expression, supporting the induction of the specific proteins according to the life history of each species.
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- Alexandra Staikou
- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Fytoko street, GR-38445 Volos, Greece
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Modeling the oxygen uptake, transport and consumption in an estivating terrestrial snail, Xeropicta derbentina, by the Colburn analogy. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0251379. [PMID: 34014950 PMCID: PMC8136638 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The present work gives insight into the internal heat management of the respiratory system in the terrestrial snail Xeropicta derbentina, which has to cope with extreme climate conditions in its habitat. A realistic model of the lung´s vein system was constructed and the active diffusive surface of capillaries and main vein was calculated and confirmed by geometrical measurements. We here present a model that is able to validate the measured oxygen consumption by the use of the Colburn analogy between mass and momentum transfer. By combining basic diffusion laws with the momentum transfer, i.e. wall shear stress, at the inner wall of the lung capillaries and the main vein, the progression of the oxygen mass fraction in the hemolymph can be visualized.
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Köhler H, Capowiez Y, Mazzia C, Eckstein H, Kaczmarek N, Bilton MC, Burmester JKY, Capowiez L, Chueca LJ, Favilli L, Florit Gomila J, Manganelli G, Mazzuca S, Moreno‐Rueda G, Peschke K, Piro A, Quintana Cardona J, Sawallich L, Staikou AE, Thomassen HA, Triebskorn R. Experimental simulation of environmental warming selects against pigmented morphs of land snails. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:1111-1130. [PMID: 33598118 PMCID: PMC7863387 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In terrestrial snails, thermal selection acts on shell coloration. However, the biological relevance of small differences in the intensity of shell pigmentation and the associated thermodynamic, physiological, and evolutionary consequences for snail diversity within the course of environmental warming are still insufficiently understood. To relate temperature-driven internal heating, protein and membrane integrity impairment, escape behavior, place of residence selection, water loss, and mortality, we used experimentally warmed open-top chambers and field observations with a total of >11,000 naturally or experimentally colored individuals of the highly polymorphic species Theba pisana (O.F. MÜller, 1774). We show that solar radiation in their natural Mediterranean habitat in Southern France poses intensifying thermal stress on increasingly pigmented snails that cannot be compensated for by behavioral responses. Individuals of all morphs acted neither jointly nor actively competed in climbing behavior, but acted similarly regardless of neighbor pigmentation intensity. Consequently, dark morphs progressively suffered from high internal temperatures, oxidative stress, and a breakdown of the chaperone system. Concomitant with increasing water loss, mortality increased with more intense pigmentation under simulated global warming conditions. In parallel with an increase in mean ambient temperature of 1.34°C over the past 30 years, the mortality rate of pigmented individuals in the field is, currently, about 50% higher than that of white morphs. A further increase of 1.12°C, as experimentally simulated in our study, would elevate this rate by another 26%. For 34 T. pisana populations from locations that are up to 2.7°C warmer than our experimental site, we show that both the frequency of pigmented morphs and overall pigmentation intensity decrease with an increase in average summer temperatures. We therefore predict a continuing strong decline in the frequency of pigmented morphs and a decrease in overall pigmentation intensity with ongoing global change in areas with strong solar radiation.
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- Heinz‐R. Köhler
- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Mediterranean Institute of Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE) UMR 7263AMU, CNRSUniversité d´AvignonAvignon Cedex 9France
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Namibian University of Science and TechnologyWindhoekNamibia
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research CentreFrankfurt am MainGermany
- Department of Zoology and Animal Cell BiologyFaculty of PharmacyUniversity of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)Vitoria‐GasteizSpain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'AmbienteSezione di Scienze AmbientaliUniversità degli Studi di SienaSienaItaly
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'AmbienteSezione di Scienze AmbientaliUniversità degli Studi di SienaSienaItaly
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- Lab of Plant Biology and Plant ProteomicsDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical TechnologiesUniversity of CalabriaRendeItaly
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Lab of Plant Biology and Plant ProteomicsDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical TechnologiesUniversity of CalabriaRendeItaly
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- Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel CrusafontUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaEdifici ICTA‐ICP, campus de la UABBarcelonaSpain
- Ciutadella de MenorcaIlles BalearsSpain
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Department of ZoologySchool of BiologyAristotle University of ThessalonikiThessalonikiGreece
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- Comparative ZoologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
- Steinbeis‐Transfer Centre for Ecotoxicology and EcophysiologyRottenburgGermany
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Ito S, Konuma J. Disruptive selection of shell colour in land snails: a mark–recapture study of Euhadra peliomphala simodae. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Many theoretical studies have suggested that disruptive selection plays an important role in phenotypic divergence, but few studies have determined the action of disruptive selection on phenotypic divergence via field studies. This study investigated the effect of disruptive selection on shell colour polymorphism in the Japanese land snail Euhadra peliomphala simodae to determine whether extreme phenotypes of snail shell colour are favoured over intermediate phenotypes. We conducted field surveys on an oceanic island with black, yellow and intermediate-coloured E. p. simodae snails. We captured and marked ~1800 individual snails and monitored their survival over 18 months. We quantified shell colours against images and examined the frequency distribution of shell colour variation. The variation exhibited a bimodal distribution with a far lower frequency of intermediate-coloured snails than of black or yellow snails. The population sizes of the three snail groups fluctuated synchronously with the changing seasons. Bayesian estimates showed lower survival rates for juvenile intermediate-coloured snails than for juvenile black and yellow snails, implying there was disruptive selection associated with shell colour. We suggest this disruptive selection may have resulted in the evolutionary divergence of the snail’s shell colour within the lineage having high shell colour variation.
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- Shun Ito
- Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
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Schweizer M, Triebskorn R, Köhler H. Snails in the sun: Strategies of terrestrial gastropods to cope with hot and dry conditions. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:12940-12960. [PMID: 31788227 PMCID: PMC6875674 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Revised: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Terrestrial gastropods do not only inhabit humid and cool environments but also habitat in which hot and dry conditions prevail. Snail species that are able to cope with such climatic conditions are thus expected to having developed multifaceted strategies and mechanisms to ensure their survival and reproduction under heat and desiccation stress. This review paper aims to provide an integrative overview of the numerous adaptation strategies terrestrial snails have evolved to persist in hot and dry environments as well as their mutual interconnections and feedbacks, but also to outline research gaps and questions that remained unanswered. We extracted relevant information from more than 140 publications in order to show how biochemical, cellular, physiological, morphological, ecological, thermodynamic, and evolutionary parameters contribute to provide an overall picture of this classical example in stress ecology. These mechanisms range from behavioral and metabolic adaptations, including estivation, to the induction of chaperones and antioxidant enzymes, mucocyte and digestive gland cell responses and the modification and frequency of morphological features, particularly shell pigmentation. In this context, thermodynamic constraints call for processes of complex adaptation at varying levels of biological organization that are mutually interwoven. We were able to assemble extensive, mostly narrowly focused information from the literature into a web of network parameters, showing that future work on this subject requires multicausal thinking to account for the complexity of relationships involved in snails' adaptation to insolation, heat, and drought.
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- Mona Schweizer
- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute of Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute of Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
- Steinbeis Transfer Center for Ecotoxicology and EcophysiologyRottenburgGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute of Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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Katz N, Pruitt JN, Scharf I. The complex effect of illumination, temperature, and thermal acclimation on habitat choice and foraging behavior of a pit-building wormlion. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2362-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Knigge T, Di Lellis MA, Monsinjon T, Köhler HR. Relevance of body size and shell colouration for thermal absorption and heat loss in white garden snails, Theba pisana (Helicidae), from Northern France. J Therm Biol 2017; 69:54-63. [PMID: 29037405 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Revised: 05/21/2017] [Accepted: 06/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The internal temperature of land snails depends on environmental factors, such as exposure to electromagnetic radiation and airflow as well as biotic factors including shell size, shell colouration and thickness or the resting position of the snail. In controlled field experiments, we quantified heating by thermal absorption of light and airflow-induced heat loss in the white garden snail, Theba pisana, from Normandy, France. Heating experiments revealed a significant positive relation of the internal body temperature with illumination period, shell temperature and air temperature at different times of day. The size of the snails was negatively related with both of the given illumination times: smaller animals heated up stronger than larger ones. The temperature at the surface of the shell significantly depended on the illumination period and the time of day. An AIC-based quality assessment of multiple linear modelling showed that, for explaining both shell surface and internal temperature of the soft body, several factors, i.e., exposure time, daytime, shell size and colouration contributed to the best models, respectively. Similarly, heat loss of the soft body after and during exposure of the snails to sunlight by a constant airflow depended on the initial body temperature, shell size, colouration and ambient air temperature. Our study revealed also the importance of both shell size and colouration for the loss of body temperature under natural conditions: small and banded animals that had heated up to temperatures above 30°C cooled down faster than large and un-banded ones.
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- Thomas Knigge
- Normandy University, UNIHAVRE, UMR-I02 SEBIO, 25 rue Philippe Lebon, F-76600 Le Havre, France.
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Normandy University, UNIHAVRE, UMR-I02 SEBIO, 25 rue Philippe Lebon, F-76600 Le Havre, France
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Jungmann D, Berg K, Dieterich A, Frank M, Gräf T, Scheurer M, Schwarz S, Siewert C, Oetken M. Health effects of metoprolol in epibenthic and endobenthic invertebrates-A basis to validate future in vitro biotests for effect-based biomonitoring. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2017; 52:189-200. [PMID: 27835069 DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2016.1246930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The aim of this study was to determine the effect data for metoprolol as a model substance for beta-blockers in aquatic invertebrates. The results will be used as a basis for the validation of future mode of action-based in vitro test systems targeting this class of pharmaceuticals. Effects of metoprolol were investigated in two autochthonous species with high relevance in stream ecology: the amphipod Gammarus fossarum and the oligochaete Lumbriculus variegatus. Mortality in G. fossarum was not observed in acute toxicity testing (48 h), and a significant increase of mortality at 45 mg/L was found when amphipods were exposed chronically (40 days). The most sensitive population-relevant endpoints were the juvenile-adult ratio and number of egg-bearing females with NOEC/LOEC-values of 5/15 mg/L. No proteotoxic effects were identified in G. fossarum. The sediment toxicity test with L. variegatus according to the OECD Guideline 225 with an exposure time of 28 days resulted in EC10-values of 92.5 and 126.1 mg/kgdw for the endpoints reproduction and biomass, respectively. In L. variegatus the response kinetics of Hsp70 showed no significant difference between the treatments. A tendency for rising lipid peroxide concentrations was found between 0.03 and 10 mg/kgdw, which were significant between the treatments, but not to the control.
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- b Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- c Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt , Germany
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- c Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt , Germany
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- b Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- b Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- c Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt , Germany
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Staikou A, Kesidou E, Garefalaki ME, Michaelidis B. Laboratory studies on the thermal tolerance and response of enzymes of intermediate metabolism in different land snail species. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2016; 203:262-272. [PMID: 27746363 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Revised: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Land snails species occur in a range of habitats from humid to semi-arid and arid ones and seasonal variations in their physiology and biochemical composition have been linked to annual cycles of photoperiod, temperature, humidity and water availability. In an effort to understand the thermal tolerance and the impact of temperature elevation on tissue metabolism of land snails we determined the mortality, heamolymph PO2 and the activities of enzymes of intermediary metabolism in three land snail species (Helix lucorum, Helix pomatia and Cornu aspersum) differing in their geographical distribution and inhabiting areas with different climatic characteristics. No mortality was observed in both population of Cornu aspersum, while Helix pomatia exhibited higher mortality than Helix lucorum. PO2 dropped within the first 10days of exposure to elevated temperature in all species, although in Cornu aspersum this decrease was significantly lower. No significant reduction in the enzymatic activities of all glycolytic enzymes studied, as well as of citrate synthase (CS) and 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (HOAD) was observed in the more thermal tolerant species C. aspersum from both populations studied. Significant reductions of enzymatic activity of the glycolytic enzymes phosphofructokinase (PFK), pyruvate kinase (PK) and d-Lactate dehydrogenase (d-LDH) was observed in Helix lucorum and Helix pomatia. The observed inter-specific differences seem to be in accordance with the life cycle characteristics of each species and may be attributed to climatic differences among habitats within their distribution range.
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- Alexandra Staikou
- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Mizrahi T, Goldenberg S, Heller J, Arad Z. Geographic variation in thermal tolerance and strategies of heat shock protein expression in the land snail Theba pisana in relation to genetic structure. Cell Stress Chaperones 2016; 21:219-38. [PMID: 26503612 PMCID: PMC4786534 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-015-0652-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2015] [Revised: 09/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Land snails are exposed to conditions of high ambient temperature and low humidity, and their survival depends on a suite of morphological, behavioral, physiological, and molecular adaptations to the specific microhabitat. We tested in six populations of the land snail Theba pisana whether adaptations to different habitats affect their ability to cope with thermal stress and their strategies of heat shock protein (HSP) expression. Levels of Hsp70 and Hsp90 in the foot tissue were measured in field-collected snails and after acclimation to laboratory conditions. Snails were also exposed to various temperatures (32 up to 54 °C) for 2 h and HSP messenger RNA (mRNA) levels were measured in the foot tissue and survival was determined. To test whether the physiological and molecular data are related to genetic parameters, we analyzed T. pisana populations using partial sequences of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA ribosomal RNA genes. We show that populations collected from warmer habitats were more thermotolerant and had higher constitutive levels of Hsp70 isoforms in the foot tissue. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis indicated that hsp70 and hsp90 mRNA levels increased significantly in response to thermal stress, although the increase in hsp70 mRNA was larger compared to hsp90 and its induction continued up to higher temperatures. Generally, warm-adapted populations had higher temperatures of maximal induction of hsp70 mRNA synthesis and higher upper thermal limits to HSP mRNA synthesis. Our study suggests that Hsp70 in the foot tissue of T. pisana snails may have important roles in determining stress resistance, while Hsp90 is more likely implicated in signal transduction processes that are activated by stress. In the phylogenetic analysis, T. pisana haplotypes were principally divided into two major clades largely corresponding to the physiological ability to withstand stress, thus pointing to genetically fixed tolerance.
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- Tal Mizrahi
- Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel.
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Lesage C, Patrelle C, Vrignaud S, Decors A, Ferté H, Jouet D. Intermediate hosts of Protostrongylus pulmonalis (Frölich, 1802) and P. oryctolagi Baboš, 1955 under natural conditions in France. Parasit Vectors 2015; 8:104. [PMID: 25889190 PMCID: PMC4336746 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0717-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2014] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Protostrongylus oryctolagi and P. pulmonalis are causative agents of pulmonary protostrongyliasis in Lagomorphs in France. These nematodes need usually one intermediate host for its life cycle, a terrestrial snail. However, some studies, mainly in experimental conditions, have identified the species of snails acting as intermediate hosts. METHODS In total, 3315 terrestrial snails and 307 slugs were collected in the field in South-Eastern France and analyzed to detect the presence of parasites. Identification of nematode parasites and snails were performed according to morphological and molecular approaches (D2 domain of the 28S rDNA for parasites; 18S and ITS-1 rDNA, COI and 16S mtDNA for snails). RESULTS Eighteen snails were found positive for Protostrongylids larvae. Haplotypes of the larvae corresponding to sequences of P. oryctolagi and P. pulmonalis were detected. Morphological identification of molluscs based on shell characters revealed 4 different morphotypes, and molecular results confirm the membership of these gastropods to the Hygromiidae and revealed 4 different species: Candidula gigaxii, 2 species of Cernuella sp. and Xeropicta derbentina. All infested snails were collected in wine cultures. CONCLUSION This study displays the first description of intermediate hosts of P. oryctolagi and the first report of X. derbentina as natural intermediate host of P. pulmonalis.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Helminth/chemistry
- DNA, Helminth/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/genetics
- France
- Gastropoda/parasitology
- Life Cycle Stages
- Metastrongyloidea/growth & development
- Metastrongyloidea/physiology
- Microscopy
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S/genetics
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Snails/classification
- Snails/genetics
- Snails/parasitology
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- Célia Lesage
- EA 4688 (VECPAR), UFR de Pharmacie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51096, Reims, France.
- Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Direction des études et de la recherche, 5 rue de Saint Thibaud, 78610, Auffargis, France.
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- EA 4688 (VECPAR), UFR de Pharmacie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51096, Reims, France.
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- Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Direction des études et de la recherche, 5 rue de Saint Thibaud, 78610, Auffargis, France.
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- EA 4688 (VECPAR), UFR de Pharmacie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51096, Reims, France.
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- EA 4688 (VECPAR), UFR de Pharmacie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51096, Reims, France.
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Coulter DP, Höök TO, Mahapatra CT, Guffey SC, Sepúlveda MS. Fluctuating water temperatures affect development, physiological responses and cause sex reversal in fathead minnows. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:1921-1928. [PMID: 25587805 DOI: 10.1021/es5057159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Natural and human activities can result in both high temporal and spatial variability in water temperature. Rapid temperature changes have the potential to dramatically affect physiological processes in aquatic organisms and, due to their limited mobility, fish early life stages are particularly vulnerable to ambient temperature fluctuations. In this study, we examined how the magnitude and frequency of temperature fluctuations affect survival, growth, development, expression of thermoresponsive genes, and gonadal differentiation in fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas. We exposed individuals (0 to 4 days post fertilization) of known genotypic sex to fluctuations of Δ4 °C over 12-h, Δ8 °C over 12- and 24-h, and three stable temperatures (21, 25, and 29 °C) for up to 45 d. Expression of hsp70 in fish exposed to the highest-magnitude, highest-frequency fluctuating treatment cycled in concert with temperature and was upregulated initially during exposure, and may have contributed to temperature fluctuations having little effect on time to and size at hatching (whole-organism responses). This treatment also caused fish to undergo nondirectional sex reversal. These results indicate that hsp70 may be involved in mediating thermal stress from subdaily temperature fluctuations and that sex determination in fathead minnows can be influenced by cycling temperatures.
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- David P Coulter
- Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University , West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Phromkunthong W, Choochuay P, Kiron V, Nuntapong N, Boonyaratpalin M. Pathophysiological changes associated with dietary melamine and cyanuric acid toxicity in red tilapia. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2015; 38:161-173. [PMID: 24428523 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2013] [Revised: 11/08/2013] [Accepted: 11/16/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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This study examined the adverse effects of feed-delivered melamine (MEL) and cyanuric acid (CYA) in red tilapia. Diet 1 (without MEL and CYA), diets 2-4 (with MEL and CYA at 2.5, 5 and 7.5 g kg(-1) diet, respectively) and diets 5 and 6 (with either MEL or CYA at 10 g kg(-1) diet) were examined. MEL alone lowered both growth and FCR (P < 0.05), and CYA alone reduced the FCR of tilapia. Protein efficiency ratio and apparent net utilization of fish on diets 2-6 were poor (P < 0.05). The renal tubules of fish ingested MEL-CYA combination had melamine-cyanurate crystals. On the other hand, diets with only one chemical did not induce such crystals. MEL and CYA in whole body, fillet or viscera reflected their dietary inclusion levels. The levels of Hsp70 were increased in the liver of fish that ingested MEL and CYA, in combination or singly (P < 0.05). However, in the kidney, such an increase was visible only in the fish that received diet 4 (P < 0.05). Combination of MEL and CYA at inclusion levels > 5 g kg(-1) diet induced the activity of catalase in liver and the activity of glutathione peroxidase in liver and kidneys. Therefore, these adulterants should not be included in fish feeds.
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- W Phromkunthong
- Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand
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2-DE Mapping of the Blue Mussel Gill Proteome: The Usual Suspects Revisited. Proteomes 2015; 3:3-41. [PMID: 28248261 PMCID: PMC5302490 DOI: 10.3390/proteomes3010003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2014] [Accepted: 12/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis, L. 1758) is an ecologically important and commercially relevant bivalve. Because of its ability to bioconcentrate xenobiotics, it is also a widespread sentinel species for environmental pollution, which has been used in ecotoxicological studies for biomarker assessment. Consequently, numerous proteomics studies have been carried out in various research contexts using mussels of the genus Mytilus, which intended to improve our understanding of complex physiological processes related to reproduction, adaptation to physical stressors or shell formation and for biomarker discovery. Differential-display 2-DE proteomics relies on an extensive knowledge of the proteome with as many proteoforms identified as possible. To this end, extensive characterization of proteins was performed in order to increase our knowledge of the Mytilus gill proteome. On average, 700 spots were detected on 2-DE gels by colloidal blue staining, of which 122 different, non-redundant proteins comprising 203 proteoforms could be identified by tandem mass spectrometry. These proteins could be attributed to four major categories: (i) “metabolism”, including antioxidant defence and degradation of xenobiotics; (ii) “genetic information processing”, comprising transcription and translation as well as folding, sorting, repair and degradation; (iii) “cellular processes”, such as cell motility, transport and catabolism; (iv) “environmental information processing”, including signal transduction and signalling molecules and interaction. The role of cytoskeleton proteins, energetic metabolism, chaperones/stress proteins, protein trafficking and the proteasome are discussed in the light of the exigencies of the intertidal environment, leading to an enhanced stress response, as well as the structural and physiological particularities of the bivalve gill tissue.
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Dieterich A, Troschinski S, Schwarz S, Di Lellis MA, Henneberg A, Fischbach U, Ludwig M, Gärtner U, Triebskorn R, Köhler HR. Hsp70 and lipid peroxide levels following heat stress in Xeropicta derbentina (Krynicki 1836) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) with regard to different colour morphs. Cell Stress Chaperones 2015; 20:159-68. [PMID: 25108358 PMCID: PMC4255243 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-014-0534-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2014] [Revised: 07/29/2014] [Accepted: 08/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Terrestrial snails which live under dry and hot conditions need efficient mechanisms of adaptation to counteract the problems of desiccation and over-heating. A profoundly heat tolerant snail species is the Mediterranean Xeropicta derbentina, exhibiting different shell colour morphs ranging from pale white to darkly banded. Considering that dark-pigmented snails are believed to have a disadvantage due to faster heating, we investigated possible differences in the stress markers Hsp70 and lipid peroxideation between four pre-defined colour morphs which were exposed to different temperatures for eight hours. The highest Hsp70 levels were observed in response to 38-40 °C. Levels decreased when this temperature was exceeded. Snails of a pre-defined colour category 3 (with a large black band at the umbilicus side of the shell) showed the most prominent Hsp70 response. Lipid peroxideation levels also showed a maximum at 38 °C but displayed a second peak at rather high temperatures at which the Hsp70 level already had decreased (45-48 °C). Particularly pure white snails (category 1) and the most pigmented ones (category 4) were found to have different levels of lipid peroxidation at 38 °C and 45 °C compared to the other morphs. A hypothesis involving a combined two-phase defence mechanism, to which both, the Hsp70 protection system and the antioxidant defence system, may contribute, is discussed.
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- A. Dieterich
- />Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Institute of Applied Research, University of Applied Sciences, Kanalstr. 33, 73728 Esslingen, Germany
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- />Institute of Applied Research, University of Applied Sciences, Kanalstr. 33, 73728 Esslingen, Germany
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- />Institute of Applied Research, University of Applied Sciences, Kanalstr. 33, 73728 Esslingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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Mizrahi T, Goldenberg S, Heller J, Arad Z. Natural variation in resistance to desiccation and heat shock protein expression in the land snail Theba pisana along a climatic gradient. Physiol Biochem Zool 2014; 88:66-80. [PMID: 25590594 DOI: 10.1086/679485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Land snails frequently encounter desiccating conditions, and their survival depends on a suite of morphological, physiological, and molecular adaptations to the specific microhabitat. Strategies of survival can be determined by integrating information from various levels of biological organization. In this study, we used a combination of physiological parameters related to water economy and molecular factors (stress protein expression) to investigate the strategies of survival adopted by seven populations of the Mediterranean-type land snail Theba pisana from different habitats. We analyzed water compartmentalization during aestivation and used experimental desiccation to compare desiccation resistance. We also measured the endogenous levels of heat shock proteins (HSPs) Hsp72, Hsp74, and Hsp90 under nonstress conditions and analyzed the HSP response to desiccation in two populations that differed mostly in their resistance to desiccation. We revealed significant intraspecific differences in resistance to desiccation that seem to be determined by the speed of recruitment of the water-preserving mechanisms. The ability to cope with desiccating conditions was correlated with habitat temperature but not with the rainfall gradient, implying that in the coastal region, temperature is likely to have a major impact on desiccation resistance rather than precipitation. Also, higher desiccation resistance was correlated with higher constitutive levels of Hsp74 in the foot tissue. HSPs were upregulated during desiccation, but the response was delayed and was milder in the most resistant population compared to the most susceptible one. Our study suggests that T. pisana populations from warmer habitats were more resistant to desiccation and developed distinct strategies of HSP expression for survival, namely, the maintenance of high constitutive levels of Hsp70 together with a delayed and limited response to stress.
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- Tal Mizrahi
- Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel; 2Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Troschinski S, Dieterich A, Krais S, Triebskorn R, Köhler HR. Antioxidant defence and stress protein induction following heat stress in the Mediterranean snail Xeropicta derbentina. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 217:4399-405. [PMID: 25394630 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.113167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The Mediterranean snail Xeropicta derbentina (Pulmonata, Hygromiidae), being highly abundant in Southern France, has the need for efficient physiological adaptations to desiccation and over-heating posed by dry and hot environmental conditions. As a consequence of heat, oxidative stress manifests in these organisms, which, in turn, leads to the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this study, we focused on adaptations at the biochemical level by investigation of antioxidant defences and heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) induction, both essential mechanisms of the heat stress response. We exposed snails to elevated temperature (25, 38, 40, 43 and 45°C) in the laboratory and measured the activity of the antioxidant enzymes catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx), determined the Hsp70 level and quantified lipid peroxidation. In general, we found a high constitutive level of CAT activity in all treatments, which may be interpreted as a permanent protection against ROS, i.e. hydrogen peroxide. CAT and GPx showed temperature-dependent activity: CAT activity was significantly increased in response to high temperatures (43 and 45°C), whereas GPx exhibited a significantly increased activity at 40°C, probably in response to high levels of lipid peroxides that occurred in the 38°C treatment. Hsp70 showed a maximum induction at 40°C, followed by a decrease at higher temperatures. Our results reveal that X. derbentina possesses a set of efficient mechanisms to cope with the damaging effects of heat. Furthermore, we demonstrated that, besides the well-documented Hsp70 stress response, antioxidant defence plays a crucial role in the snails' competence to survive extreme temperatures.
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- Sandra Troschinski
- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, 72072 Tübingen, Germany.
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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Di Lellis MA, Sereda S, Geißler A, Picot A, Arnold P, Lang S, Troschinski S, Dieterich A, Hauffe T, Capowiez Y, Mazzia C, Knigge T, Monsinjon T, Krais S, Wilke T, Triebskorn R, Köhler HR. Phenotypic diversity, population structure and stress protein-based capacitoring in populations of Xeropicta derbentina, a heat-tolerant land snail species. Cell Stress Chaperones 2014; 19:791-800. [PMID: 24609822 PMCID: PMC4389839 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-014-0503-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2013] [Revised: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The shell colour of many pulmonate land snail species is highly diverse. Besides a genetic basis, environmentally triggered epigenetic mechanisms including stress proteins as evolutionary capacitors are thought to influence such phenotypic diversity. In this study, we investigated the relationship of stress protein (Hsp70) levels with temperature stress tolerance, population structure and phenotypic diversity within and among different populations of a xerophilic Mediterranean snail species (Xeropicta derbentina). Hsp70 levels varied considerably among populations, and were significantly associated with shell colour diversity: individuals in populations exhibiting low diversity expressed higher Hsp70 levels both constitutively and under heat stress than those of phenotypically diverse populations. In contrast, population structure (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene) did not correlate with phenotypic diversity. However, genetic parameters (both within and among population differences) were able to explain variation in Hsp70 induction at elevated but non-pathologic temperatures. Our observation that (1) population structure had a high explanatory potential for Hsp70 induction and that (2) Hsp70 levels, in turn, correlated with phenotypic diversity while (3) population structure and phenotypic diversity failed to correlate provides empirical evidence for Hsp70 to act as a mediator between genotypic variation and phenotype and thus for chaperone-driven evolutionary capacitance in natural populations.
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- Maddalena A. Di Lellis
- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 IFZ, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Laboratory of Ecotoxicology (LEMA), EA 3222 PRES Normandie, Le Havre University, 25 Rue Philippe Lebon, F-76058 Le Havre Cedex, France
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 IFZ, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- />Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, UMR 406 UAPV/INRA, Domaine St Paul, Site Agroparc, F-84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
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- />IMBE UMR 7263, Institut Mediterranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale, Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Pole Agrosciences, 301 rue Baruch de Spinoza, BP 21239, F-84916 Avignon cedex 9, France
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- />Laboratory of Ecotoxicology (LEMA), EA 3222 PRES Normandie, Le Havre University, 25 Rue Philippe Lebon, F-76058 Le Havre Cedex, France
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- />Laboratory of Ecotoxicology (LEMA), EA 3222 PRES Normandie, Le Havre University, 25 Rue Philippe Lebon, F-76058 Le Havre Cedex, France
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- />Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 IFZ, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
- />Steinbeis-Transfer Center Ecotoxicology and Ecophysiology Rottenburg, Blumenstr. 13, D-72108 Rottenburg, Germany
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- />Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
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Troschinski S, Di Lellis MA, Sereda S, Hauffe T, Wilke T, Triebskorn R, Köhler HR. Intraspecific variation in cellular and biochemical heat response strategies of Mediterranean Xeropicta derbentina [Pulmonata, Hygromiidae]. PLoS One 2014; 9:e86613. [PMID: 24475158 PMCID: PMC3903566 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2013] [Accepted: 12/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Dry and hot environments challenge the survival of terrestrial snails. To minimize overheating and desiccation, physiological and biochemical adaptations are of high importance for these animals. In the present study, seven populations of the Mediterranean land snail species Xeropicta derbentina were sampled from their natural habitat in order to investigate the intraspecific variation of cellular and biochemical mechanisms, which are assigned to contribute to heat resistance. Furthermore, we tested whether genetic parameters are correlated with these physiological heat stress response patterns. Specimens of each population were individually exposed to elevated temperatures (25 to 52°C) for 8 h in the laboratory. After exposure, the health condition of the snails' hepatopancreas was examined by means of qualitative description and semi-quantitative assessment of histopathological effects. In addition, the heat-shock protein 70 level (Hsp70) was determined. Generally, calcium cells of the hepatopancreas were more heat resistant than digestive cells - this phenomenon was associated with elevated Hsp70 levels at 40°C.We observed considerable variation in the snails' heat response strategy: Individuals from three populations invested much energy in producing a highly elevated Hsp70 level, whereas three other populations invested energy in moderate stress protein levels - both strategies were in association with cellular functionality. Furthermore, one population kept cellular condition stable despite a low Hsp70 level until 40°C exposure, whereas prominent cellular reactions were observed above this thermal limit. Genetic diversity (mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene) within populations was low. Nevertheless, when using genetic indices as explanatory variables in a multivariate regression tree (MRT) analysis, population structure explained mean differences in cellular and biochemical heat stress responses, especially in the group exposed to 40°C. Our study showed that, even in similar habitats within a close range, populations of the same species use different stress response strategies that all rendered survival possible.
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- Sandra Troschinski
- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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Schilthuizen M, Kellermann V. Contemporary climate change and terrestrial invertebrates: evolutionary versus plastic changes. Evol Appl 2013; 7:56-67. [PMID: 24454548 PMCID: PMC3894898 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 08/27/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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To forecast the responses of species to future climate change, an understanding of the ability of species to adapt to long-term shifts in temperature is crucial. We present a review on evolutionary adaptation and phenotypic plasticity of temperature-related traits in terrestrial invertebrates. The evidence for adaptive evolution in melanization is good, but we caution that genetic determination needs to be tested in each individual species, and complex genetic correlations may exist. For phenological traits allochronic data sets provide powerful means to track climate-induced changes; however, rarely are responses deconstructed into evolutionary and plastic responses. Laboratory studies suggest climate change responses in these traits will be driven by both. For stress resistance, the evidence for shifts in traits is poor. Studies leaning heavily on Drosophila have demonstrated potential limits to evolutionary responses in desiccation and heat resistance. Quantifying the capacity for these species to respond plastically and extending this work to other taxa will be an important next step. We also note that, although not strictly speaking a species trait, the response of endosymbionts to heat stress requires further study. Finally, while clearly genetic, and possibly adaptive, the anonymous nature of latitudinal shifts in clines of genetic markers in Drosophila prevents further interpretation.
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- Menno Schilthuizen
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden, The Netherlands ; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands ; Institute Biology Leiden, Leiden University Leiden, The Netherlands
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Clayton, Vic., Australia
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Gaitán-Espitia JD, Belén Arias M, Lardies MA, Nespolo RF. Variation in thermal sensitivity and thermal tolerances in an invasive species across a climatic gradient: lessons from the land snail Cornu aspersum. PLoS One 2013; 8:e70662. [PMID: 23940617 PMCID: PMC3734266 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2013] [Accepted: 06/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The ability of organisms to perform at different temperatures could be described by a continuous nonlinear reaction norm (i.e., thermal performance curve, TPC), in which the phenotypic trait value varies as a function of temperature. Almost any shift in the parameters of this performance curve could highlight the direct effect of temperature on organism fitness, providing a powerful framework for testing thermal adaptation hypotheses. Inter-and intraspecific differences in this performance curve are also reflected in thermal tolerances limits (e.g., critical and lethal limits), influencing the biogeographic patterns of species' distribution. Within this context, here we investigated the intraspecific variation in thermal sensitivities and thermal tolerances in three populations of the invasive snail Cornu aspersum across a geographical gradient, characterized by different climatic conditions. Thus, we examined population differentiation in the TPCs, thermal-coma recovery times, expression of heat-shock proteins and standard metabolic rate (i.e., energetic costs of physiological differentiation). We tested two competing hypotheses regarding thermal adaptation (the "hotter is better" and the generalist-specialist trade-offs). Our results show that the differences in thermal sensitivity among populations of C. aspersum follow a latitudinal pattern, which is likely the result of a combination of thermodynamic constraints ("hotter is better") and thermal adaptations to their local environments (generalist-specialist trade-offs). This finding is also consistent with some thermal tolerance indices such as the Heat-Shock Protein Response and the recovery time from chill-coma. However, mixed responses in the evaluated traits suggest that thermal adaptation in this species is not complete, as we were not able to detect any differences in neither energetic costs of physiological differentiation among populations, nor in the heat-coma recovery.
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Dieterich A, Fischbach U, Ludwig M, Di Lellis MA, Troschinski S, Gärtner U, Triebskorn R, Köhler HR. Daily and seasonal changes in heat exposure and the Hsp70 level of individuals from a field population of Xeropicta derbentina (Krynicki 1836) (Pulmonata, Hygromiidae) in Southern France. Cell Stress Chaperones 2013; 18:405-14. [PMID: 23250584 PMCID: PMC3682011 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-012-0393-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2012] [Revised: 11/29/2012] [Accepted: 11/30/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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The Mediterranean land snail Xeropicta derbentina forms huge populations in Southern France. In order to characterize heat exposure and the induction of the 70-kD heat shock protein (Hsp70) response system during the life cycle of this snail, a selected population from the Vaucluse area, Provence, was investigated encompassing the issues of morphological life cycle parameters (shell size and colouration), the daily courses of heat exposure at different heights above the ground, of shell temperature, and that of the individual Hsp70 levels. The study covered all four seasons of the year 2011. Snails were found to be annual, reaching their final size in August. The shell colouration pattern showed high variation in juveniles (spring) with a strong tendency towards becoming uniformly white at old age in autumn. In all seasons, ambient air temperature decreased with increasing distance from the ground surface during daytime while remaining constantly low in the night. Overall, the Hsp70 level of individuals followed the ambient temperature during diurnal and seasonal variations. Correlation analysis revealed a positive association of individual shell temperature and Hsp70 level for the most part of the life cycle of the snails until late summer, whereas a negative correlation was found for aged animals indicating senescence effects on the capacity of the stress response system.
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- A Dieterich
- Animal Physiological Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 20, Tübingen, Germany.
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Köhler HR, Schultz C, Scheil AE, Triebskorn R, Seifan M, Di Lellis MA. Historic data analysis reveals ambient temperature as a source of phenotypic variation in populations of the land snailTheba pisana. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Heinz-R. Köhler
- Animal Physiological Ecology; Institute of Evolution and Ecology; University of Tübingen; Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 20; D-72072; Tübingen; Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology; Institute of Evolution and Ecology; University of Tübingen; Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 20; D-72072; Tübingen; Germany
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- Plant Ecology; Institute of Evolution and Ecology; University of Tübingen; Auf der Morgenstelle 3; D-72076; Tübingen; Germany
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- Animal Physiological Ecology; Institute of Evolution and Ecology; University of Tübingen; Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 20; D-72072; Tübingen; Germany
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Di Lellis MA, Seifan M, Troschinski S, Mazzia C, Capowiez Y, Triebskorn R, Köhler HR. Solar radiation stress in climbing snails: behavioural and intrinsic features define the Hsp70 level in natural populations of Xeropicta derbentina (Pulmonata). Cell Stress Chaperones 2012; 17:717-27. [PMID: 22639082 PMCID: PMC3468672 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-012-0344-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Revised: 05/03/2012] [Accepted: 05/07/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Ectotherms from sunny and hot environments need to cope with solar radiation. Mediterranean land snails of the superfamily Helicoidea feature a behavioural strategy to escape from solar radiation-induced excessive soil heating by climbing up vertical objects. The height of climbing, and also other parameters like shell colouration pattern, shell orientation, shell size, body mass, actual internal and shell surface temperature, and the interactions between those factors may be expected to modulate proteotoxic effects in snails exposed to solar radiation and, thus, their stress response. Focussing on natural populations of Xeropicta derbentina, we conducted a 'snapshot' field study using the individual Hsp70 level as a proxy for proteotoxic stress. In addition to correlation analyses, an IT-model selection approach based on Akaike's Information Criterion was applied to evaluate a set of models with respect to their explanatory power and to assess the relevance of each of the above-mentioned parameters for individual stress, by model averaging and parameter estimation. The analysis revealed particular importance of the individuals' shell size, height above ground, the shell colouration pattern and the interaction height × orientation. Our study showed that a distinct set of behavioural traits and intrinsic characters define the Hsp70 level and that environmental factors and individual features strongly interact.
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- Maddalena A Di Lellis
- Animal Physiological Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 20, Tübingen, Germany.
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Scheil AE, Gärtner U, Köhler HR. Colour polymorphism and thermal capacities in Theba pisana (O.F. Müller 1774). J Therm Biol 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2012.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Mizrahi T, Heller J, Goldenberg S, Arad Z. The heat shock response in congeneric land snails (Sphincterochila) from different habitats. Cell Stress Chaperones 2012; 17:639-45. [PMID: 22535471 PMCID: PMC3535165 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-012-0340-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2012] [Revised: 04/04/2012] [Accepted: 04/05/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Land snails are subject to daily and seasonal variations in temperature and in water availability, and use heat shock proteins (HSPs) as part of their survival strategy. We used experimental heat stress to test whether adaptation to different habitats affects HSP expression in two closely related Sphincterochila snail species, a desert species, Sphincterochila zonata, and a Mediterranean-type species, Sphincterochila cariosa. Our findings show that in S. cariosa, heat stress caused rapid induction of Hsp70 proteins and Hsp90 in the foot and kidney tissues, whereas the desert-inhabiting species S. zonata displayed delayed induction of Hsp70 proteins in the foot and upregulation of Hsp90 alone in the kidney. Our study suggests that Sphincterochila species use HSPs as part of their survival strategy following heat stress and that adaptation to different habitats results in the development of distinct strategies of HSP expression in response to heat, namely the reduced induction of HSPs in the desert-dwelling species. We suggest that the desert species S. zonata relies on mechanisms and adaptations other than HSP induction, thus avoiding the fitness consequences of continuous HSP upregulation.
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- Tal Mizrahi
- />Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, 32000 Israel
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- />Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
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- />Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, 32000 Israel
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Mizrahi T, Heller J, Goldenberg S, Arad Z. Heat shock proteins and survival strategies in congeneric land snails (Sphincterochila) from different habitats. Cell Stress Chaperones 2012; 17:523-7. [PMID: 22528052 PMCID: PMC3535171 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-012-0341-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2012] [Accepted: 04/05/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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Polmunate land snails are subject to stress conditions in their terrestrial habitat, and depend on a range of behavioural, physiological and biochemical adaptations for coping with problems of maintaining water, ionic and thermal balance. The involvement of the heat shock protein (HSP) machinery in land snails was demonstrated following short-term experimental aestivation and heat stress, suggesting that land snails use HSPs as part of their survival strategy. As climatic variation was found to be associated with HSP expression, we tested whether adaptation of land snails to different habitats affects HSP expression in two closely related Sphincterochila snail species, a desert species Sphincterochila zonata and a Mediterranean-type species Sphincterochila cariosa. Our study suggests that Sphincterochila species use HSPs as part of their survival strategy following desiccation and heat stress, and as part of the natural annual cycle of activity and aestivation. Our studies also indicate that adaptation to different habitats results in the development of distinct strategies of HSP expression in response to stress, namely the reduced expression of HSPs in the desert-inhabiting species. We suggest that these different strategies reflect the difference in heat and aridity encountered in the natural habitats, and that the desert species S. zonata relies on mechanisms and adaptations other than HSP induction thus avoiding the fitness consequences of continuous HSP upregulation.
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- Tal Mizrahi
- />Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, 32000 Israel
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- />Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
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- />Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, 32000 Israel
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Johnson MS. Epistasis, phenotypic disequilibrium and contrasting associations with climate in the land snail Theba pisana. Heredity (Edinb) 2012; 108:229-35. [PMID: 21811302 PMCID: PMC3282386 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2011] [Revised: 05/04/2011] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Hotter conditions favour effectively unbanded (EUB) shells in the snail Theba pisana. T. pisana is also polymorphic for colour of the shell's apex, determined by a pair of alleles at a locus linked to the banding locus. Apex colour is epistatic to shell banding, such that banded snails with a dark apex have darker bands. Annual censuses over 22 years across an ecotone between a sheltered Acacia thicket and open dune vegetation showed a persistent association of both EUB shells and pale apex with the Open habitat. The parallel variation was due partly to strong phenotypic disequilibrium, as the combination of EUB with dark apex was rare. Nevertheless, in fully banded shells the frequency of pale apex was also higher in the Open habitat, confirming independent, parallel associations of the two contributors to paleness. Within the Acacia habitat, temporal variation of the frequencies of banding morphs was much greater than for apex colour, and EUB shells were associated with hotter summers. Consistent with its primary effect only on the very small snails, apex colour did not vary with summer conditions, but instead, higher frequencies of pale apices were associated with sunnier winters. The intensity of selection was lower on apex colour than shell banding, due partly to the constraint of phenotypic disequilibrium. The shell traits in T. pisana are an example of complex responses to climatic variation, in which phenotypic disequilibrium constrains evolution of apex colour, but separate mechanisms of selection are evident.
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- M S Johnson
- School of Animal Biology (M092), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
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Palmer AR. Developmental Plasticity and the Origin of Novel Forms: Unveiling Cryptic Genetic Variation Via“Use and Disuse”. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2011; 318:466-79. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2010] [Revised: 08/12/2011] [Accepted: 08/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- A. Richard Palmer
- Systematics and Evolution Group; Department of Biological Sciences; University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Silvertown J, Cook L, Cameron R, Dodd M, McConway K, Worthington J, Skelton P, Anton C, Bossdorf O, Baur B, Schilthuizen M, Fontaine B, Sattmann H, Bertorelle G, Correia M, Oliveira C, Pokryszko B, Ożgo M, Stalažs A, Gill E, Rammul Ü, Sólymos P, Féher Z, Juan X. Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS One 2011; 6:e18927. [PMID: 21556137 PMCID: PMC3083392 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Accepted: 03/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Organisms provide some of the most sensitive indicators of climate change and evolutionary responses are becoming apparent in species with short generation times. Large datasets on genetic polymorphism that can provide an historical benchmark against which to test for recent evolutionary responses are very rare, but an exception is found in the brown-lipped banded snail (Cepaea nemoralis). This species is sensitive to its thermal environment and exhibits several polymorphisms of shell colour and banding pattern affecting shell albedo in the majority of populations within its native range in Europe. We tested for evolutionary changes in shell albedo that might have been driven by the warming of the climate in Europe over the last half century by compiling an historical dataset for 6,515 native populations of C. nemoralis and comparing this with new data on nearly 3,000 populations. The new data were sampled mainly in 2009 through the Evolution MegaLab, a citizen science project that engaged thousands of volunteers in 15 countries throughout Europe in the biggest such exercise ever undertaken. A known geographic cline in the frequency of the colour phenotype with the highest albedo (yellow) was shown to have persisted and a difference in colour frequency between woodland and more open habitats was confirmed, but there was no general increase in the frequency of yellow shells. This may have been because snails adapted to a warming climate through behavioural thermoregulation. By contrast, we detected an unexpected decrease in the frequency of Unbanded shells and an increase in the Mid-banded morph. Neither of these evolutionary changes appears to be a direct response to climate change, indicating that the influence of other selective agents, possibly related to changing predation pressure and habitat change with effects on micro-climate.
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- Jonathan Silvertown
- Department of Life Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
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Vosloo D, Vosloo A. Response of cold-acclimated, farmed South African abalone (Haliotis midae) to short-term and long-term changes in temperature. J Therm Biol 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2010.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Osterauer R, Köhler HR, Triebskorn R. Histopathological alterations and induction of hsp70 in ramshorn snail (Marisa cornuarietis) and zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos after exposure to PtCl(2). AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2010; 99:100-107. [PMID: 20444508 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2009] [Revised: 02/23/2010] [Accepted: 04/04/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The platinum group metals (PGMs) platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), and rhodium (Rh) are used in automobile catalytic converters, from which they have been emitted into the environment to an increasing degree during the last 20 years. Despite the bioavailability of these metals to plants and animals, studies determining the effects of PGMs on organisms are extremely rare. In the present study, effects of various concentrations of PtCl(2) (0.1, 1, 10, 50 and 100 microg/L) were investigated with respect to the induction of hsp70 and histopathological alterations in the zebrafish, Danio rerio and the ramshorn snail, Marisa cornuarietis. Histopathological investigations revealed effects of Pt on both species, which varied between slight and strong cellular reactions, depending on the PtCl(2) concentration. The hsp70 level in M. cornuarietis did not show an increase following Pt exposure whereas it was significantly elevated at 100 micorg/L PtCl(2) in D. rerio.
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- Raphaela Osterauer
- Animal Physiological Ecology Department, University of Tübingen, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 20, 72072 Tübingen, Germany.
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Sgrò CM, Wegener B, Hoffmann AA. A naturally occurring variant of Hsp90 that is associated with decanalization. Proc Biol Sci 2010; 277:2049-57. [PMID: 20200026 PMCID: PMC2880099 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2010] [Accepted: 02/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The heat shock protein Hsp90 has been the focus of many studies since it was suggested that it acts to mediate the buffering of phenotypic variation. Hsp90-mediated buffering may result in the accumulation of cryptic genetic variation that, when released either as a consequence of environmental or genetic stress, increases the evolvability of a population. Recent studies using laboratory-induced mutations of Hsp90 and/or chemical inhibition to disrupt Hsp90 function confirm that Hsp90 can buffer cryptic genetic variation. We have previously identified a naturally occurring variant in the charged linker region of the Hsp90 gene, and now examine whether this variant is associated with altered levels of trait variability. The variant is associated with the release of cryptic genetic variation for canalized morphological (bristle) traits, but not for uncanalized morphological (wing and bristle) traits, and the effect on canalized traits depends on culture temperature. This suggests that natural genetic variation in Hsp90 may mediate the evolution of canalized morphological traits even if it does not influence the expression of variation for uncanalized traits.
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- Carla M Sgrò
- Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia.
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