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Smiley P, Levin M. Competition for finite resources as coordination mechanism for morphogenesis: An evolutionary algorithm study of digital embryogeny. Biosystems 2022; 221:104762. [PMID: 36064151 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The standard view of embryogenesis is one of cooperation driven by the cells' shared genetics and evolutionary interests. However, numerous examples from developmental biology and agriculture reveal a surprising amount of competition among body cells, tissues, and organs for both metabolic and informational resources. To explain the existence of such competition we had hypothesized that evolution uses limiting "reservoirs" of resource molecules as a communication medium - a global scratchpad, to enable tissues across the body to coordinate growth. Here, we test this hypothesis via an evolutionary simulation of embryogeny in silico. Genomes encode state transition rules for cells, such as proliferation, differentiation, and resource use, enabling virtual embryos to develop a specific large-scale morphology. An evolutionary algorithm operates over the genomes, with fitness defined as a function of specific morphological requirements for the final embryo shape. We found that not only does such an algorithm rapidly discover rules for cellular behavior that reliably make embryos with specific anatomical properties, but that it discovers the strategy of using finite resources to coordinate development. Given the option of using finite or infinite reservoirs (which determine cells' ability to carry out specific actions), evolution preferentially uses finite reservoirs, which results in higher fitness and increased consistency (without needing direct selection for morphological invariance). We report aspects of anatomical, physiological/transcriptional, and genomic analysis of evolved virtual embryos that help understand how evolution can use competition among genetically identical subunits within a multicellular body to coordinate reliable, complex morphogenesis. Our results suggest that under some conditions, composite multi-scale systems will promote conflict and artificial scarcity for their components.
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- Peter Smiley
- Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
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- Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Department of Biology, Medford, MA, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
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Gawne R, McKenna KZ, Levin M. Competitive and Coordinative Interactions between Body Parts Produce Adaptive Developmental Outcomes. Bioessays 2020; 42:e1900245. [DOI: 10.1002/bies.201900245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Richard Gawne
- Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University Medford MA 02155
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- Division of Biological SciencesSection of Cellular and Developmental BiologyUniversity of California San Diego La Jolla CA 92093
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- Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University Medford MA 02155
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Forsgren KL, Riar N, Schlenk D. The effects of the pyrethroid insecticide, bifenthrin, on steroid hormone levels and gonadal development of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) under hypersaline conditions. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2013; 186:101-7. [PMID: 23518481 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.02.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2012] [Revised: 01/23/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The San Francisco Bay Estuary and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta) is an important breeding and nursery ground for fish. Of particular interest are salmonids that migrate through fresh and saltwater areas polluted with various contaminants including bifenthrin, a widely used pyrethroid insecticide. Male steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to bifenthrin (0.1 and 1.5μg/L) for two weeks had a lower gonadosomatic index (GSI) in freshwater but were not affected by concurrent bifenthrin exposure and saltwater acclimation. Plasma estradiol-17β (E2) levels and ovarian follicle diameter of fish exposed to bifenthrin (0.1 and 1.5μg/L) in freshwater significantly increased. Under hypersaline conditions, fish exposed to bifenthrin had significantly reduced E2 levels and smaller follicles, and unhealthy ovarian follicles were observed. Given the occurrence of bifenthrin in surface waters of the Bay Delta, understanding the impact of bifenthrin on wildlife is necessary for improving risk assessments of pyrethroids in this important ecosystem.
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- Kristy L Forsgren
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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García-López Á, Sánchez-Amaya MI, Tyler CR, Prat F. Mechanisms of oocyte development in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.): investigations via application of unilateral ovariectomy. Reproduction 2011; 142:243-53. [PMID: 21610167 DOI: 10.1530/rep-11-0040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Unilateral ovariectomy (ULO) was performed in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) during late pre-vitellogenesis/early vitellogenesis. Plasma steroid levels and the expression of a suite of potential oogenesis-relevant genes in the ovary, brain, and pituitary were evaluated with the aim of understanding their involvement in the compensatory oocyte development occurring within the remaining ovarian lobe. After 69 days of surgery the remaining ovarian lobe in ULO fish was gravimetrically equivalent to an intact-paired ovary of sham operated, control fish. This compensatory ovarian growth was based on an increased number of early perinucleolar oocytes and mid-late stage vitellogenic follicles without an apparent recruitment of primary oocytes into the secondary growth phase. Plasma steroid levels were similar in ULO and control females at all time points analyzed, suggesting an increased steroid production of the remaining ovarian lobe in hemi-castrated females. Results of the gene expression survey conducted indicate that the signaling pathways mediated by Fsh and Gnrh1 constitute the central axes orchestrating the observed ovarian compensatory growth. In addition, steroid receptors, Star protein, Igfs, and members of the transforming growth factor beta superfamily including anti-Mullerian hormone and bone morphogenetic protein 4 were identified as potentially relevant players within this process, although their specific actions and interactions remain to be established. Our results demonstrate that ULO provides an excellent in vivo model for elucidating the interconnected endocrine and molecular mechanisms controlling oocyte development in European sea bass.
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- Ángel García-López
- Departamento de Biología Marina y Acuicultura, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC), Avenida República Saharaui 2, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain.
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Luckenbach JA, Kusakabe M, Swanson P, Young G. Unilateral ovariectomy increases egg size and reduces follicular atresia in the semelparous coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 309:468-76. [PMID: 18618597 DOI: 10.1002/jez.476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Unilateral ovariectomy (ULO, removal of one ovary) is a powerful technique for studying aspects of reproductive physiology, including follicular recruitment and growth. To examine effects of ULO for the first time in a semelparous species, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) were unilaterally ovariectomized during mid-vitellogenesis approximately 3 months before spawning. At termination of the study (79 days post-surgery), single ovaries of ULO fish were gravimetrically equivalent to paired ovaries of sham surgery, control fish. There was no evidence of recruitment of new vitellogenic follicles. Instead, the dramatic increase in ovary mass was attributable to hypertrophy of existing vitellogenic follicles (33% increase in volume) and increased fecundity achieved through a greater than two-fold reduction in follicular atresia. The composition of whole ovaries on a dry weight basis from ULO fish was greater in protein, but lower in lipid than that of control fish. Expressing the data on a per follicle basis, however, showed that follicles of ULO fish contained more protein, ash, water, and lipid. The results indicate that ULO of coho salmon induces compensatory hypertrophy of existing vitellogenic follicles, while maximizing fecundity through reduction of atresia. Thus, 3 months before spawning, coho salmon exhibit the ability to adjust final egg size and number when faced with significant depletion of ovarian follicles. This in vivo system provides a platform for further study of physiological mechanisms regulating follicular growth and atresia, and the trade-off between egg size and egg number.
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- John Adam Luckenbach
- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-5020, USA.
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Hernandez-Divers SJ, Bakal RS, Hickson BH, Rawlings CA, Wilson HG, Radlinsky M, Hernandez-Divers SM, Dover SR. ENDOSCOPIC SEX DETERMINATION AND GONADAL MANIPULATION IN GULF OF MEXICO STURGEON (ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS DESOTOI). J Zoo Wildl Med 2004; 35:459-70. [PMID: 15732586 DOI: 10.1638/04-005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Seventeen Gulf of Mexico sturgeons (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) underwent endoscopic sex determination, gonadal biopsy, and various reproductive surgeries as part of a conservation development plan. The fish were anesthetized with tricaine methanesulfonate (MS-222) buffered with sodium bicarbonate and maintained on a recirculating water anesthesia circuit. A 6-mm Ternamian EndoTip Cannula, placed through the ventral midline, midway between pectoral and pelvic fins, permitted the introduction of a 5-mm telescope. Swim bladder aspiration and CO2 insufflation of the coelomic cavity provided excellent observation. Second and third cannulae were placed under direct visual control, lateral and cranial or caudal to the telescope cannula. Sex determination was successfully performed in all fish; however, five of 17 sturgeons (29%) required endoscopic gonadal biopsy to confirm sex. Bilateral ovariectomy or orchidectomy was successfully performed in three males and four females. Unilateral ovariectomy and bilateral ligation of the müllerian ducts using an extracorporeal suturing technique was accomplished in an additional three females. No apparent morbidity was associated with the anesthesia or endoscopic surgery in any fish. The ability to safely perform minimally invasive reproductive surgery in fish may have important management and conservation benefits.
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- Stephen J Hernandez-Divers
- Department of Small Animal Medicine & Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7390, USA
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Surgery in fish is feasible and practical for clinical and research applications. Certain adjustments in standard surgical procedures are necessary to accommodate piscine tissue handling, skin sensitivity, aqueous respiration, anatomic variations, and patient size. General considerations for fish surgery, including anesthesia, presurgical evaluation, equipment, suture selection, and surgical site preparation, have been presented here. Procedures described include celiotomy, enucleation, pseudobranchectomy, swim bladder surgery, gonadectomy, liver and kidney biopsy techniques, telemetry device implantation, and vascular catheterization.
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- C A Harms
- Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
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Tyler CR, Nagler JJ, Pottinger TG, Turner MA. Effects of unilateral ovariectomy on recruitment and growth of follicles in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 13:309-316. [PMID: 24198210 DOI: 10.1007/bf00003435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/13/1994] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Virgin female rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, were unilaterally ovariectomised at various stages of ovarian development to investigate the effect of the removal of one ovary on subsequent recruitment and growth of follicles in the remaining ovary. The right ovary was removed from groups of 12-15 fish, 12, 7 and 4 months before they were due to ovulate, and the gonadosomatic index and follicle number and size determined just prior to ovulation. There were no differences in fecundity or follicle size in fish unilaterally ovariectomised at 12 and 7 months prior to ovulation compared to the controls. However, in the females unilaterally ovariectomised 4 months prior to ovulation, the remaining ovary either had the normal number of follicles for a single ovary but of a significantly larger size than follicles in the controls, or alternatively had almost 70% more than the normal number of vitellogenic follicles but comprising two distinctly different size populations. Differences in plasma oestradiol-17β concentrations at the final sample were seen only in females unilaterally ovariectomised 4 months prior to ovulation, where the levels were significantly lower than both the sham operated and control fish (p < 0.05).These data show that in the rainbow trout, complete compensatory ovarian hypertrophy following unilateral ovariectomy can occur throughout a major part of ovarian development, but that follicle recruitment is limited to stages up to (and therefore fecundity is determined by) mid-vitellogenesis.
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- C R Tyler
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
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Saidapur SK, Prasadmurthy YS. Mechanisms regulating the ovarian cycle in the frog Rana cyanophlyctis: effect of unilateral ovariectomy, season, feeding, human chorionic gonadotrophin, and estradiol-17 beta. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1987; 244:309-17. [PMID: 3430124 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402440215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Effects of 30-day unilateral ovariectomy (ULO) on compensatory ovarian hypertrophy (COH) was studied in adult frog Rana cyanophlyctis in relation to reproductive phase/season, feeding, and treatment with human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) or estradiol-17 beta. Compensatory growth of the remaining ovary was assessed in terms of weight as well as changes in the dynamics of the pool sizes of different oocytes viz., first growth phase (FGP), medium-sized second growth phase (MSGP), large-sized second growth phase (LSGP), and atretic oocytes. The frogs were fed with live guppies 6 days a week. The effect of underfeeding on COH was studied in the frogs fed once a week. The ovaries removed at operation and those of the sham-operated frogs were used for comparison (controls). COH occurred in both pre- and postbreeding phases (February and November, respectively). In both instances follicular atresia was greatly reduced. In February, COH was due to recruitment of both MSGP and LSGP oocytes. The number of these oocytes increased significantly over controls, and the ovarian weight nearly doubled. However, in November COH occurred because of an increase in FGP oocytes and therefore total oocytes, but there were no changes in the ovarian weights. Administration of 20 IU HCG (6 days a week) had no influence on the basic pattern of COH-response exhibited by the remaining ovary in relation to reproductive phase/season, but it increased the recruitment of oocytes, i.e., FGP oocytes in November and SGP oocytes in February. Follicular atresia was drastically reduced with HCG. Underfeeding or treatment with estradiol-17 beta abolished the COH in both February and November.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- S K Saidapur
- Department of Zoology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India
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Jones RE, Fitzgerald KT, Tokarz RR. Endocrine control of clutch size in reptiles. VII. Compensatory ovarian hypertrophy following unilateral ovariectomy in Sceloporus occidentalis. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1977; 31:157-60. [PMID: 832816 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(77)90203-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Dadzie S, Hyder M. Compensatory hypertrophy of the remaining ovary and the effects of methallibure in the unilaterally ovariectomized Tilapia aurea. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1976; 29:433-40. [PMID: 955392 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(76)90026-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Vasal S, Sundararaj BI. Response of the ovary in the catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch), to various combinations of photoperiod and temperature. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1976; 197:247-63. [PMID: 965909 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1401970206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Responses of the ovary of the catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis, to various regimes of photoperiod and temperature, were studied during the different periods of the annual ovarian cycle. During the preparatory and post-spawning periods moderate temperatures of 25 degrees C and above, regardless of photoperiod, were more favorable for the formation of yolky (stage III) oocytes than coller temperatures (below 23 degrees C). Even under conditions of continuous dark or light, ovarian development occurred as a function of warm temperatures. Gravid ovaries were maintained beyond the spawning period only with a temperature of 30 degrees C, photoperiod notwithstanding. Nevertheless, moderate or cool temperatures did not prevent the ovarian regression that occurred by the first week of October in the post-spawning period. Regulation of ovarian activity at least in part by an endogenous circannual rhythm appears possible.
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Sundararaj BI, Anand TC, Donaldson EM. Effects of partially purified salmon pituitary gonadotropin on ovarian maintenance, ovulation, and vitellogenesis in the hypophysectomized catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch). Gen Comp Endocrinol 1972; 18:102-14. [PMID: 5009668 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(72)90086-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Vijayakumar S, Jorgensen CB, Kjaer K. Regulation of ovarian cycle in the toad Bufo bufo bufo (L.): effects of autografting pars distalis of the hypophysis, of extirpating gonadotropic hypothalamic region, and of partial ovariectomy. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1971; 17:432-43. [PMID: 5001859 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(71)90177-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Sundararaj BI, Nayyar SK. Effects of estrogen, SU-9055, and cyproterone acetate on the hypersecretory activity in the seminal vesicles of the castrate catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch). THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1969; 172:399-408. [PMID: 5373343 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1401720405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Goswami SV, Sundararaj BI. Effect of estradiol benzoate, human chorionic gonadotropin, and follicle-stimulating hormone on unilateral ovariectomy-induced compensatory hypertrophy in catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch). Gen Comp Endocrinol 1968; 11:393-400. [PMID: 5682913 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(68)90096-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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