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Li X, Ma W, Jiang Y. Honeybees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Adapt to the Shock of High Temperature and High Humidity Through Changes in Sugars and Polyols and Free Amino Acids. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2023; 23:4. [PMID: 36695003 PMCID: PMC9874260 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iead002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Temperature and humidity are important factors affecting the honeybees physiological metabolism. When honeybees are stressed by high temperature and high humidity, various physiological stress mechanisms evolved by bees are activated in response to injury. The accumulation of some sugars, polyols, and free amino acids can effectively protect cell structure stability and resist temperature stress. In this study, the changes of glucose, trehalose, cholesterol, sorbitol, sorbitol dehydrogenase, mannitol, and free amino acids content of worker honeybees [Apis cerana cerana Fabricius and Apis mellifera Ligustica (Hymenoptera: Apidae)] under different temperature and humidity conditions were measured. Our research results show that high temperature has an important impact on the metabolism of honeybees. Heat stress can cause the accumulation of various antistress substances in worker. The contents of sugars, polyols, and some free amino acids accumulated in high temperature were significantly higher than those in the control, while the influence of high humidity was less. Although high humidity was improved compared with the control, the difference was not obvious. It provides a theoretical basis for exploring the physiological mechanism of individual heat resistance of honeybees.
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- Xinyu Li
- Shandong Vocational College of Light Industry, Zibo, Shandong Province, China
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- College of Horticulture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China
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Low temperatures induce physiological changes in lipids, fatty acids and hydrocarbons, in two rare winter scorpions of genus Urophonius (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae). J Therm Biol 2021; 96:102841. [PMID: 33627278 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.102841] [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: 05/15/2020] [Revised: 12/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Different organisms (mainly poikilotherms) are subject to environmental fluctuations that could affect their normal physiological functioning (e.g., by destabilization of biomembranes and rupture of biomolecules). As a result, animals regulate their body temperature and adapt to different environmental conditions through various physiological strategies. These adaptations are crucial in all organisms, although they are more relevant in those that have reached a great adaptive diversity such as scorpions. Within scorpions, the genus Urophonius presents species with winter activity, being this a peculiarity within the Order and an opportunity to study the strategies deployed by these organisms when facing different temperatures. Here, we explore three basic issues of lipid remodeling under high and low temperatures, using adults and juveniles of Urophonius achalensis and U. brachycentrus. First, as an indicator of metabolic state, we analyzed the lipidic changes in different tissues observing that low temperatures generate higher quantities of triacylglycerols and fewer amount of structural lipids and sphyngomielin. Furthermore, we studied the participation of fatty acids in adaptive homeoviscosity, showing that there are changes in the quantity of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids at low temperature (mainly 16:0, 18:0, 18:1 and 18:2). Finally, we observe that there are quantitative and qualitative variations in the cuticular hydrocarbons (with possible water barrier and chemical recognition function). These fluctuations are in some cases species-specific, metabolic-specific, tissue-specific and in others depend on the ontogenetic state.
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Youngblood JP, VandenBrooks JM, Babarinde O, Donnay ME, Elliott DB, Fredette-Roman J, Angilletta MJ. Oxygen supply limits the chronic heat tolerance of locusts during the first instar only. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 127:104157. [PMID: 33098860 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2020.104157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Although scientists know that overheating kills many organisms, they do not agree on the mechanism. According to one theory, referred to as oxygen- and capacity-limitation of thermal tolerance, overheating occurs when a warming organism's demand for oxygen exceeds its supply, reducing the organism's supply of ATP. This model predicts that an organism's heat tolerance should decrease under hypoxia, yet most terrestrial organisms tolerate the same amount of warming across a wide range of oxygen concentrations. This point is especially true for adult insects, who deliver oxygen through highly efficient respiratory systems. However, oxygen limitation at high temperatures may be more common during immature life stages, which have less developed respiratory systems. To test this hypothesis, we measured the effects of heat and hypoxia on the survival of South American locusts (Schistocerca cancellata) throughout development and during specific instars. We demonstrate that the heat tolerance of locusts depends on oxygen supply during the first instar but not during later instars. This finding provides further support for the idea that oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance depends on respiratory performance, especially during immature life stages.
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- Jacob P Youngblood
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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Bayley JS, Sørensen JG, Moos M, Koštál V, Overgaard J. Cold acclimation increases depolarization resistance and tolerance in muscle fibers from a chill-susceptible insect, Locusta migratoria. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2020; 319:R439-R447. [PMID: 32847398 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00068.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cold exposure depolarizes cells in insects due to a reduced electrogenic ion transport and a gradual increase in extracellular K+ concentration ([K+]). Cold-induced depolarization is linked to cold injury in chill-susceptible insects, and the locust, Locusta migratoria, has been shown to improve cold tolerance following cold acclimation through depolarization resistance. Here we investigate how cold acclimation influences depolarization resistance and how this resistance relates to improved cold tolerance. To address this question, we investigated if cold acclimation affects the electrogenic transport capacity and/or the relative K+ permeability during cold exposure by measuring membrane potentials of warm- and cold-acclimated locusts in the presence and absence of ouabain (Na+-K+ pump blocker) or 4-aminopyridine (4-AP; voltage-gated K+ channel blocker). In addition, we compared the membrane lipid composition of muscle tissue from warm- and cold-acclimated locust and the abundance of a range transcripts related to ion transport and cell injury accumulation. We found that cold-acclimated locusts are depolarization resistant due to an elevated K+ permeability, facilitated by opening of 4-AP-sensitive K+ channels. In accordance, cold acclimation was associated with an increased abundance of Shaker transcripts (gene encoding 4-AP-sensitive voltage-gated K+ channels). Furthermore, we found that cold acclimation improved muscle cell viability following exposure to cold and hyperkalemia even when muscles were depolarized substantially. Thus cold acclimation confers resistance to depolarization by altering the relative ion permeability, but cold-acclimated locusts are also more tolerant to depolarization.
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- Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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Gama-Flores JL, Huidobro-Salas ME, Sarma S, Nandini S, Zepeda-Mejia R, Gulati RD. Temperature and age affect the life history characteristics and fatty acid profiles of Moina macrocopa (Cladocera). J Therm Biol 2015; 53:135-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2015.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Revised: 10/13/2015] [Accepted: 10/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Li QR, Xiao Y, Wu FQ, Ye MQ, Luo GQ, Xing DX, Li L, Yang Q. Analysis of midgut gene expression profiles from different silkworm varieties after exposure to high temperature. Gene 2014; 549:85-96. [PMID: 25046138 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.07.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2014] [Revised: 07/02/2014] [Accepted: 07/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The silkworm is a poikilothermic animal, whose growth and development is significantly influenced by environmental temperature. To identify genes and metabolic pathways involved in the heat-stress response, digital gene expression analysis was performed on the midgut of the thermotolerant silkworm variety '932' and thermosensitive variety 'HY' after exposure to high temperature (932T and HYT). Deep sequencing yielded 6,211,484, 5,898,028, 5,870,395 and 6,088,303 reads for the 932, 932T, HY and HYT samples, respectively. The annotated genes associated with these tags numbered 4357, 4378, 4296 and 4658 for the 932, 932T, HY and HYT samples, respectively. In the HY-vs-932, 932-vs-932T, and HY-vs-HYT comparisons, 561, 316 and 281 differentially expressed genes were identified, which could be assigned to 179, 140 and 123 biological pathways, respectively. It was found that some of the biological pathways, which included oxidative phosphorylation, related to glucose and lipid metabolism, are greatly affected by high temperature and may lead to a decrease in the ingestion of fresh mulberry. When subjected to an early period of continuous heat stress, HSP genes, such as HSP19.9, HSP23.7, HSP40-3, HSP70, HSP90 and HSP70 binding protein, are up-regulated but then reduced after 24h and the thermotolerant '932' strain has higher levels of mRNA of some HSPs, except HSP70, than the thermosensitive variety during continuous high temperature treatment. It is suggested that HSPs and the levels of their expression may play important roles in the resistance to high temperature stress among silkworm varieties. This study has generated important reference tools that can be used to further analyze the mechanisms that underlie thermotolerance differences among silkworm varieties.
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- Qing Rong Li
- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China
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- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China
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- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China
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- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China
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- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China
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- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China
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- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China
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- The Sericulture and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, GuangZhou, China.
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Wang H, Fang Y, Wang L, Zhu W, Ji H, Wang H, Xu S, Sima Y. Transcriptome analysis of the Bombyx mori fat body after constant high temperature treatment shows differences between the sexes. Mol Biol Rep 2014; 41:6039-49. [DOI: 10.1007/s11033-014-3481-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 06/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hague CV, Postle AD, Attard GS, Dymond MK. Cell cycle dependent changes in membrane stored curvature elastic energy: evidence from lipidomic studies. Faraday Discuss 2013; 161:481-97; discussion 563-89. [PMID: 23805754 DOI: 10.1039/c2fd20078c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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One of the most developed theories of phospholipid homeostasis is the intrinsic curvature hypothesis, which, in broad terms, postulates that cells regulate their lipid composition so as to keep constant the membrane stored curvature elastic energy. The implication of this hypothesis is that lipid composition is determined by a ratio control function consisting of the weighted sum of concentrations of type II lipids in the numerator and the weighted sum of concentrations of Type 0 lipids in the denominator. In previous work we used a data-driven approach, based on lipidomic data from asynchronous cell cultures, to determine a criterion that allows the different lipid species to be assigned to the set of type 0 or of type II lipids, and hence construct a ratio control function that serves as a proxy for the lipid contribution to total membrane stored curvature elastic energy in vivo. Here we apply the curvature elastic energy proxy to the analysis of lipid composition data from synchronous HeLa cells as they traverse the cell cycle. Our analysis suggests HeLa cells modify their membrane stored elastic energy through the cell cycle. In S-phase type 0 lipids are the most abundant, whilst in G2 type II lipids are most abundant. Changes in our proxy for membrane stored elastic energy correlate with membrane curvature dependent processes in the HeLa cell around division, providing some insights into the interplay between the individual lipid and protein contributions to membrane free energy.
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- Charlotte V Hague
- Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
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Dymond MK, Hague CV, Postle AD, Attard GS. An in vivo ratio control mechanism for phospholipid homeostasis: evidence from lipidomic studies. J R Soc Interface 2012; 10:20120854. [PMID: 23256189 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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While it is widely accepted that the lipid composition of eukaryotic membranes is under homeostatic control, the mechanisms through which cells sense lipid composition are still the subject of debate. It has been postulated that membrane curvature elastic energy is the membrane property that is regulated by cells, and that lipid composition is maintained by a ratio control function derived from the concentrations of type II and type 0 lipids, weighted appropriately. We assess this proposal by seeking a signature of ratio control in quantified lipid composition data obtained by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry from over 40 independent asynchronous cell populations. Our approach revealed the existence of a universal 'pivot' lipid, which marks the boundary between type 0 lipids and type II lipids, and which is invariant between different cell types or cells grown under different conditions. The presence of such a pivot species is a distinctive signature of the operation in vivo, in human cell lines, of a control function that is consistent with the hypothesis that membrane elastic energy is homeostatically controlled.
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- Marcus K Dymond
- Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
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Pujol-Lereis LM, Rabossi A, Quesada-Allué LA. Lipid profiles as indicators of functional senescence in the medfly. Exp Gerontol 2012; 47:465-72. [PMID: 22765950 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2012.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2011] [Revised: 03/30/2012] [Accepted: 04/03/2012] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Changes associated with the age-related decline of physiological functions, and their relation with mortality rates, are thoroughly being investigated in the aging research field. We used the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata, largely studied by biodemographers, as a model for functional senescence studies. The aim of our work was to find novel combinatorial indicators able to reflect the functional state of adult insects, regardless of chronological age. We studied the profiles of neutral and polar lipids of head, thorax and abdomen of standard populations kept at 23 °C, at different ages. Lipid classes were separated by thin layer chromatography, and the quantitative values were used to find patterns of change using a multivariate principal component analysis approach. The lipid-dependent principal components obtained correlated with age, and differences between sexes were consistent with differences in the shape of the survival curves and the mortality parameters. These same components were able to discriminate populations with a behavioral decline due to a mild 28 °C thermal stress. Thus, young populations at 28 °C showed similar lipid profiles than old populations at 23 °C. The results indicated that the lipid-dependent components reflect the functional state of the flies, and so were named functional state components (FSCs). It is proposed that FSCs may be used as functional senescence indicators.
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- Luciana Mercedes Pujol-Lereis
- IIBBA-CONICET, Química Biológica-FCEyN-Universidad de Buenos Aires and Fundación Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Chang MC, Roots BI. The lipid composition of mitochondrial outer and inner membranes from the brains of goldfish acclimated at 5 and 30°C. J Therm Biol 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0306-4565(89)90005-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hazel JR. Cold Adaptation in Ectotherms: Regulation of Membrane Function and Cellular Metabolism. ADVANCES IN COMPARATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74078-7_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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