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Izadi H, Tamanadar E, Khajehali J, Samadieh H. Rhizoglyphus robini, a pest mite of saffron, is unable to resist extracellular ice formation. EXPERIMENTAL & APPLIED ACAROLOGY 2023; 91:29-41. [PMID: 37552405 DOI: 10.1007/s10493-023-00828-w] [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: 10/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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The saffron mite, Rhizoglyphus robini Claparède (Acari, Astigmata: Acaridae), is one of the most important pests of saffron-producing regions in Iran. It causes yellowing and decreases saffron growth, and finally it destroys the bulbs. In this research, the cold tolerance and supercooling point (SCP) of the saffron mite were measured in three populations and two temperature regimes. Our results showed that the mean SCP of the saffron mite was approximately -14.6 °C without significant difference among the populations. On the contrary, acclimation of the mites significantly decreased their SCP to a mean of approximately -16.5 °C. Exposure of the mites for 24 h to 0 and -2.5 °C had no significant effect on the survival of the mites but when the mites were exposed to -5.0 °C for 24 h, survival of the three populations reached the lowest level of roughly 60%. By 24-h exposure to -7.5 °C, survival of the mites was almost negligible. As a large proportion of mortality was observed above the SCP, and LT50 > SCP, it can be inferred that the saffron mite is likely a chill-susceptible species. This suggests that the saffron mite lacks the ability to withstand extracellular ice formation. Overall, the results of the current study suggest no significant physiological differences between populations of the saffron mite.
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- Hamzeh Izadi
- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran.
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran
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- Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Xie Z, Xu L, Zhao J, Li N, Qin D, Xiao C, Lu Y, Guo Z. Rapid cold hardening and cold acclimation promote cold tolerance of oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) by physiological substances transformation and cryoprotectants accumulation. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2023; 113:574-586. [PMID: 37501573 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485323000251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Insect response to cold stress is often associated with adaptive strategies and chemical variation. However, low-temperature domestication to promote the cold tolerance potential of Bactrocera dorsalis and transformation of main internal substances are not clear. Here, we use a series of low-temperature exposure experiments, supercooling point (SCP) measurement, physiological substances and cryoprotectants detection to reveal that pre-cooling with milder low temperatures (5 and 10°C) for several hours (rapid cold hardening) and days (cold acclimation) can dramatically improve the survival rate of adults and pupae under an extremely low temperature (-6.5°C). Besides, the effect of rapid cold hardening for adults could be maintained even 4 h later with 25°C exposures, and SCP was significantly declined after cold acclimation. Furthermore, content of water, fat, protein, glycogen, sorbitol, glycerol and trehalose in bodies were measured. Results showed that water content was reduced and increased content of proteins, glycogen, glycerol and trehalose after two cold domestications. Our findings suggest that rapid cold hardening and cold acclimation could enhance cold tolerance of B. dorsalis by increasing proteins, glycerol, trehalose and decreasing water content. Conclusively, identifying a physiological variation will be useful for predicting the occurrence and migration trend of B. dorsalis populations.
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- Zifei Xie
- College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Yunnan Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Kunming 650201, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Yunnan Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Kunming 650201, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Yunnan Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Kunming 650201, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Yunnan Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Kunming 650201, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Yunnan Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Kunming 650201, China
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- College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Yunnan Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Kunming 650201, China
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Masoudmagham A, Izadi H, Mohammadzadeh M. Expanded Supercooling Capacity With No Cryoprotectant Accumulation Underlies Cold Tolerance of the European Grapevine Moth. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 2021; 114:828-838. [PMID: 33624817 DOI: 10.1093/jee/toab005] [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: 11/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The European grapevine moth, Lobesia botrana (Denis et Schiffermuller), is a serious invasive pest that causes significant losses to the flowers and fruits of grapes in most of the world. This multivoltine pest passes the winter as the third-generation diapausing pupa. The current study was designed to compare nondiapausing (first and second generations) and diapausing pupae (third generation) and to investigate the relationship among cold tolerance, the supercooling point (SCP), and diapause development of the third-generation diapausing pupae. The lethal temperatures (LTs) for the three generations were determined using 24-h exposure at subzero temperatures. The mean SCP of the pupae was estimated at approx. -22.6°C, the lowest level of which (-23.7°C) was recorded in the well-developed diapausing pupae in February. The highest level of cold tolerance was also recorded in February. There were no significant differences among the temperatures required to kill 30, 50, and 90% of the pupae. The temperatures significantly decreased from October onward and reached the lowest levels in February during which the lowest SCP and the highest cold tolerance were observed in the diapausing pupae. No significant differences were found in the cryoprotectant levels, among the diapausing and nondiapausing pupae, and the diapause development. The highest activity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (AMPK) was recorded in the late diapause in February. The findings suggested a relationship among SCP depression, cold tolerance enhancement, and diapause development. A bimodal cold-tolerance strategy (freeze-intolerant and freeze-tolerant) was found to be a feature of the pupae.
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- Ashraf Masoudmagham
- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran
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- Pistachio Safety Research Center, Rafsanajn University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran
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Malkeyeva D, Kiseleva E, Fedorova S. Small heat shock protein Hsp67Bc plays a significant role in Drosophila melanogaster cold stress tolerance. J Exp Biol 2020; 223:jeb219592. [PMID: 32943578 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.219592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Hsp67Bc in Drosophila melanogaster is a member of the small heat shock protein family, the main function of which is to prevent the aggregation of misfolded or damaged proteins. Hsp67Bc interacts with Starvin and Hsp23, which are known to be a part of the cold stress response in the fly during the recovery phase. In this study, we investigated the role of the Hsp67Bc gene in the cold stress response. We showed that in adult Drosophila, Hsp67Bc expression increases after cold stress and decreases after 1.5 h of recovery, indicating the involvement of Hsp67Bc in short-term stress recovery. We also implemented a deletion in the D. melanogaster Hsp67Bc gene using imprecise excision of a P-element, and analysed the cold tolerance of Hsp67Bc-null mutants at different developmental stages. We found that Hsp67Bc-null homozygous flies are viable and fertile but display varying cold stress tolerance throughout the stages of ontogenesis: the survival after cold stress is slightly impaired in late third instar larvae, unaffected in pupae, and notably affected in adult females. Moreover, the recovery from chill coma is delayed in Hsp67Bc-null adults of both sexes. In addition, the deletion in the Hsp67Bc gene caused more prominent up-regulation of Hsp70 following cold stress, suggesting the involvement of Hsp70 in compensation of the lack of the Hsp67Bc protein. Taken together, our results suggest that Hsp67Bc is involved in the recovery of flies from a comatose state and contributes to the protection of the fruit fly from cold stress.
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- Dina Malkeyeva
- Cell Biology Department, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Cell Biology Department, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Cell Biology Department, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Kraft LJ, Yeh DA, Gómez MI, Burrack HJ. Determining the Effect of Postharvest Cold Storage Treatment on the Survival of Immature Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Small Fruits. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 2020; 113:2427-2435. [PMID: 32914843 DOI: 10.1093/jee/toaa185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We evaluated the effect of postharvest cold storage temperature (0.0-2.2°C) and duration (3-5 d) on pupal emergence of single life stage populations of laboratory-generated Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) and mixed-age populations collected in the field from blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. For field-infested fruit, cold storage at any temperature and duration resulted in less pupal emergence compared with the control held at 20°C, but D. suzukii subjected to higher temperatures and shorter storage durations in caneberries had higher survival. When a single life stage of D. suzukii was exposed to cold storage, pupal emergence was significantly reduced across all fruit types held at 0°C and for most life stages and fruit types held at 1.5 and 2.2°C, dependent on the substrate. Freshly laid eggs exposed to cold storage produced the lowest pupal emergence. Our results suggest using cold storage treatment is an effective postharvest management strategy for small-fruit growers to use on-farm as part of an integrated program to manage D. suzukii infestation. An economic assessment was made to examine the profit implications of an investment in cold storage units to counter pest pressure. Results suggest that investment in a cold storage unit would breakeven in about 4 yr. On farms that already have cold storage installed, we estimated a $0.11/kg decrease in blueberry market price for holding fruit for 3 d. Together, this cost assessment will provide growers with the knowledge to make decisions based on infestation risk and the seasonal sale price of blueberries.
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- Laura J Kraft
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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Low-temperature storage of the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, facilitates laboratory colony maintenance and population growth. Parasitology 2020; 147:740-746. [PMID: 32183923 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182020000463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, is currently the most common ectoparasite affecting egg-laying hens. Since continuous culture of D. gallinae on birds is a biologically and economically costly endeavour, storage techniques for mites are urgently needed. Effects of temperature on adult and nymph survival were first studied to optimize storage conditions. Then, fecundity of D. gallinae was studied after mites were stored at optimal storage conditions. Results showed the survival rates of protonymphs (42.11%), deutonymphs (8.19%) and females (19.78%) at 5°C after 84 days were higher than those at 0, 25 and 30°C. Thereafter the fecundity and the capability of re-establishing colonies of D. gallinae were evaluated after they were stored for 40 and 80 days at 5°C. After storage, the mean number of eggs showed no statistical difference between treated (5°C for 40 or 80 days) and control groups (25°C for 7 days), while the hatching rates of eggs were in all cases above 97%. The dynamic changes of mite populations and egg numbers showed similar trends to the control group after the stored adult or nymph mites were fed on chicks. Dermanyssus gallinae can be successfully stored at 5°C for 80 days with no interference with the fecundity of mites, and the stored mites could re-establish colonies successfully. Adults and nymphs were two main stages with capability for low temperature storage. These results suggest that low temperature storage is a viable option for colony maintenance of D. gallinae under laboratory conditions.
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Stone HM, Erickson PA, Bergland AO. Phenotypic plasticity, but not adaptive tracking, underlies seasonal variation in post-cold hardening freeze tolerance of Drosophila melanogaster. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:217-231. [PMID: 31988724 PMCID: PMC6972814 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In temperate regions, an organism's ability to rapidly adapt to seasonally varying environments is essential for its survival. In response to seasonal changes in selection pressure caused by variation in temperature, humidity, and food availability, some organisms exhibit plastic changes in phenotype. In other cases, seasonal variation in selection pressure can rapidly increase the frequency of genotypes that offer survival or reproductive advantages under the current conditions. Little is known about the relative influences of plastic and genetic changes in short-lived organisms experiencing seasonal environmental fluctuations. Cold hardening is a seasonally relevant plastic response in which exposure to cool, but nonlethal, temperatures significantly increases the organism's ability to later survive at freezing temperatures. In the present study, we demonstrate seasonal variation in cold hardening in Drosophila melanogaster and test the extent to which plasticity and adaptive tracking underlie that seasonal variation. We measured the post-cold hardening freeze tolerance of flies from outdoor mesocosms over the summer, fall, and winter. We bred outdoor mesocosm-caught flies for two generations in the laboratory and matched each outdoor cohort to an indoor control cohort of similar genetic background. We cold hardened all flies under controlled laboratory conditions and then measured their post-cold hardening freeze tolerance. Comparing indoor and field-caught flies and their laboratory-reared G1 and G2 progeny allowed us to determine the roles of seasonal environmental plasticity, parental effects, and genetic changes on cold hardening. We also tested the relationship between cold hardening and other factors, including age, developmental density, food substrate, presence of antimicrobials, and supplementation with live yeast. We found strong plastic responses to a variety of field- and laboratory-based environmental effects, but no evidence of seasonally varying parental or genetic effects on cold hardening. We therefore conclude that seasonal variation in post-cold hardening freeze tolerance results from environmental influences and not genetic changes.
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Štětina T, Poupardin R, Moos M, Šimek P, Šmilauer P, Koštál V. Larvae of Drosophila melanogaster exhibit transcriptional activation of immune response pathways and antimicrobial peptides during recovery from supercooling stress. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 105:60-68. [PMID: 30660665 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2019.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Revised: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying insect cold acclimation prior to cold stress are relatively well explored, but the mechanisms linked to recovery and repair after cold stress have received much less attention. Here we focus on recovery from cold stress in the larvae of the vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster) that were exposed to two physiologically distinct cold stress situations: supercooling (S, survival > 95%) and freezing (F, survival < 10%), both at -5 °C. We analysed the metabolic and transcriptomic responses to cold stress via GC-MS/LC-MS and whole-genome microarrays, respectively. Both stresses (S and F) caused metabolic perturbations which were transient in supercooled larvae but deeper and irreversible in frozen larvae. Differential gene expression analysis revealed a clear disparity in responses to supercooling and freezing (less than 10% of DE genes overlapped between S and F larvae). Using GO term enrichment analysis and KEGG pathway mapping, we identified the stimulation of immune response pathways as a strong candidate mechanism for coping with supercooling. Supercooling caused complex transcriptional activation of innate immunity potential: from Lysozyme-mediated degradation of bacterial cell walls, recognition of pathogen signals, through phagocytosis and lysosomal degradation, Toll and Imd signaling, to upregulation of genes coding for different antimicrobial peptides. The transcriptomic response to freezing was instead dominated by degradation of macromolecules and death-related processes such as autophagy and apoptosis. Of the 45 upregulated DE genes overlapping in responses to supercooling and freezing, 26 were broadly ascribable to defense and repair functions.
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- Tomáš Štětina
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Biology Centre, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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May C, Hillerbrand N, Thompson LM, Faske TM, Martinez E, Parry D, Agosta SJ, Grayson KL. Geographic Variation in Larval Metabolic Rate Between Northern and Southern Populations of the Invasive Gypsy Moth. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2018; 18:5052202. [PMID: 30010927 PMCID: PMC6041892 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iey068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Thermal regimes can diverge considerably across the geographic range of a species, and accordingly, populations can vary in their response to changing environmental conditions. Both local adaptation and acclimatization are important mechanisms for ectotherms to maintain homeostasis as environments become thermally stressful, which organisms often experience at their geographic range limits. The spatial spread of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) after introduction to North America provides an exemplary system for studying population variation in physiological traits given the gradient of climates encompassed by its current invasive range. This study quantifies differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR) across temperature for four populations of gypsy moth, two from the northern and two from southern regions of their introduced range in North America. Gypsy moth larvae were reared at high and low thermal regimes, and then metabolic activity was monitored at four temperatures using stop-flow respirometry to test for an acclimation response. For all populations, there was a significant increase in RMR as respirometry test temperature increased. Contrary to our expectations, we did not find evidence for metabolic adaptation to colder environments based on our comparisons between northern and southern populations. We also found no evidence for an acclimation response of RMR to rearing temperature for three of the four pairwise comparisons examined. Understanding the thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate in gypsy moth, and understanding the potential for changes in physiology at range extremes, is critical for estimating continued spatial spread of this invasive species both under current and potential future climatic constraints.
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- Carolyn May
- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
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- Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
- Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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Mutamiswa R, Chidawanyika F, Nyamukondiwa C. Thermal plasticity potentially mediates the interaction between host Chilo partellus Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) and endoparasitoid Cotesia flavipes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in rapidly changing environments. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2018; 74:1335-1345. [PMID: 29193807 DOI: 10.1002/ps.4807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Increasing climatic average temperatures and variability elicit various insect physiological responses that affect fitness and survival and may influence subsequent trophic interactions in agroecosystems. In this background, we investigated short- and long-term plastic responses to temperature of the laboratory-reared stemborer Chilo partellus and its larval endoparasitoid Cotesia flavipes. RESULTS Rapid cold- and heat-hardening effects in C. partellus larvae, pupae and adults and C. flavipes adults were highly significant (P < 0.001). High-temperature acclimation improved critical thermal limits and heat knockdown time in C. partellus larvae and C. flavipes adults, respectively. Low-temperature acclimation enhanced the supercooling point in C. flavipes and the chill coma recovery time in both C. partellus larvae and C. flavipes adults. CONCLUSION The results of this study suggest that thermal plasticity may enhance the survival of these two species when they are subjected to lethal low and high temperatures. However, C. partellus appeared to be more plastic than C. flavipes. These results have three major implications: (1) C. partellus may inhabit slightly warmer environments than C. flavipes, suggesting a potential mismatch in biogeography; (2) host-parasitoid relationships are complex and are probably trait dependent, and (3) host-parasitoid differential thermal plastic responses may offset biocontrol efficacy. These results may help inform biocontrol decision making under conditions of global change. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Reyard Mutamiswa
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana
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- Agricultural Research Council, Plant Protection Research, Weeds Division, Hilton, South Africa
- School of Lifesciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana
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Bianchini MC, Portela JLR, Puntel RL, Ávila DS. Cellular Responses in Drosophila melanogaster Following Teratogen Exposure. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1797:243-276. [PMID: 29896697 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7883-0_13] [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] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Studies focusing on the teratogenicity of a series of new chemicals that are produced in a daily basis represent an important focus in toxicological/pharmaceutical research, particularly due to the risks arising from occupational exposure of the subjects. However, the complex mating procedures, scheduling of treatments, requirements for trained personnel, and elevated costs of traditional teratological assays with mammals hamper this type of assessments. Accordingly, the use of Drosophila melanogaster as a model for teratological studies has received considerable attention. Here some general protocols about Drosophila exposure-at different stages of their life cycle-to any chemical with putative teratological activity are presented. Importantly, some details about D. melanogaster embryonic, larval, pupal, or adult endpoints, that can be used to assess teratogenicity using flies as a model organism, are presented.
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Vo P, Gridi-Papp M. Low temperature tolerance, cold hardening and acclimation in tadpoles of the neotropical túngara frog ( Engystomops pustulosus ). J Therm Biol 2017; 66:49-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2015] [Revised: 03/04/2017] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chidawanyika F, Nyamukondiwa C, Strathie L, Fischer K. Effects of Thermal Regimes, Starvation and Age on Heat Tolerance of the Parthenium Beetle Zygogramma bicolorata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) following Dynamic and Static Protocols. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0169371. [PMID: 28052099 PMCID: PMC5215736 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2016] [Accepted: 12/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Temperature and resource availability are key elements known to limit the occurrence and survival of arthropods in the wild. In the current era of climate change, critical thermal limits and the factors affecting these may be of particular importance. We therefore investigated the critical thermal maxima (CTmax) of adult Zygogramma bicolorata beetles, a biological control agent for the invasive plant Parthenium hysterophorus, in relation to thermal acclimation, hardening, age, and food availability using static (constant) and dynamic (ramping) protocols. Increasing temperatures and exposure times reduced heat survival. In general, older age and lack of food reduced heat tolerance, suggesting an important impact of resource availability. Acclimation at constant temperatures did not affect CTmax, while fluctuating thermal conditions resulted in a substantial increase. Hardening at 33°C and 35°C improved heat survival in fed young and mid-aged but only partly in old beetles, while CTmax remained unaffected by hardening throughout. These findings stress the importance of methodology when assessing heat tolerance. Temperature data recorded in the field revealed that upper thermal limits are at least occasionally reached in nature. Our results therefore suggest that the occurrence of heat waves may influence the performance and survival of Z. bicolorata, potentially impacting on its field establishment and effectiveness as a biological control agent.
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- Frank Chidawanyika
- Agricultural Research Council, Plant Protection Research Institute, Weeds Division, Hilton, South Africa
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnological Sciences, College of Science, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana
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- Agricultural Research Council, Plant Protection Research Institute, Weeds Division, Hilton, South Africa
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- Zoological Institute & Museum, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Jakobs R, Ahmadi B, Houben S, Gariepy TD, Sinclair BJ. Cold tolerance of third-instar Drosophila suzukii larvae. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 96:45-52. [PMID: 27765625 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2016.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Revised: 09/05/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Drosophila suzukii is an emerging global pest of soft fruit; although it likely overwinters as an adult, larval cold tolerance is important both for determining performance during spring and autumn, and for the development of temperature-based control methods aimed at larvae. We examined the low temperature biology of third instar feeding and wandering larvae in and out of food. We induced phenotypic plasticity of thermal biology by rearing under short days and fluctuating temperatures (5.5-19°C). Rearing under fluctuating temperatures led to much slower development (42.1days egg-adult) compared to control conditions (constant 21.5°C; 15.7days), and yielded larger adults of both sexes. D. suzukii larvae were chill-susceptible, being killed by low temperatures not associated with freezing, and freezing survival was not improved when ice formation was inoculated externally via food or silver iodide. Feeding larvae were more cold tolerant than wandering larvae, especially after rearing under fluctuating temperatures, and rearing under fluctuating temperatures improved survival of prolonged cold (0°C) to beyond 72h in both larval stages. There was no evidence that acute cold tolerance could be improved by rapid cold-hardening. We conclude that D. suzukii has the capacity to develop at low temperatures under fluctuating temperatures, but that they have limited cold tolerance. However, phenotypic plasticity of prolonged cold tolerance must be taken into account when developing low temperature treatments for sanitation of this species.
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- Ruth Jakobs
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; Institute of Zoophysiology, University of Münster (WWU), Münster, Germany
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
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Toxopeus J, Jakobs R, Ferguson LV, Gariepy TD, Sinclair BJ. Reproductive arrest and stress resistance in winter-acclimated Drosophila suzukii. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 89:37-51. [PMID: 27039032 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2016.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2016] [Revised: 03/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/26/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Overwintering insects must survive the multiple-stress environment of winter, which includes low temperatures, reduced food and water availability, and cold-active pathogens. Many insects overwinter in diapause, a developmental arrest associated with high stress tolerance. Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae), spotted wing drosophila, is an invasive agricultural pest worldwide. Its ability to overwinter and therefore establish in temperate regions could have severe implications for fruit crop industries. We demonstrate here that laboratory populations of Canadian D. suzukii larvae reared under short-day, low temperature, conditions develop into dark 'winter morph' adults similar to those reported globally from field captures, and observed by us in southern Ontario, Canada. These winter-acclimated adults have delayed reproductive maturity, enhanced cold tolerance, and can remain active at low temperatures, although they do not have the increased desiccation tolerance or survival of fungal pathogen challenges that might be expected from a more heavily melanised cuticle. Winter-acclimated female D. suzukii have underdeveloped ovaries and altered transcript levels of several genes associated with reproduction and stress. While superficially indicative of reproductive diapause, the delayed reproductive maturity of winter-acclimated D. suzukii appears to be temperature-dependent, not regulated by photoperiod, and is thus unlikely to be 'true' diapause. The traits of this 'winter morph', however, likely facilitate overwintering in southern Canada, and have probably contributed to the global success of this fly as an invasive species.
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- Jantina Toxopeus
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
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Artificial selection on chill-coma recovery time in Drosophila melanogaster: Direct and correlated responses to selection. J Therm Biol 2016; 59:77-85. [PMID: 27264892 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2015] [Revised: 04/10/2016] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Artificial selection can be used to create populations with extreme phenotypic responses to environmental stressors. When artificial selection is applied to a single component of a stress response, this selection may result in correlated responses in other stress responses, a phenomenon called cross-tolerance, which is ultimately controlled by the genetic correlations among traits. We selected for extreme responses to cold tolerance by selecting for chill-coma recovery time from a single temperate population of Drosophila melanogaster. Chill-coma recovery time is a common metric of low, but non-lethal, cold temperature tolerance. Replicated divergent artificial selection was applied to a genetically variable base population for 31 generations, resulting in two cold resistant, two cold susceptible, and two unselected control lines. To quantify the relationship between selection on chill-coma recovery and other metrics of thermal performance, we also measured survivorship after acute cold exposure, survivorship after chronic cold exposure, survivorship after cold exposure following a pre-treatment period (rapid cold hardening), starvation tolerance, and heat tolerance. We find that chill-coma recovery time is heritable within this population and that there is an asymmetric response to increased and decreased chill-coma recovery time. Surprisingly, we found no cross-tolerances between selection on chill-coma recovery time and the other environmental stress response traits. These results suggest that although artificial selection has dramatically altered chill-coma recovery time, the correlated response to selection on other stress response phenotypes has been negligible. The lack of a correlated response suggests that chill-coma recovery time in these selection lines is likely genetically independent from measures of cold survivorship tested here.
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Sinclair BJ, Coello Alvarado LE, Ferguson LV. An invitation to measure insect cold tolerance: Methods, approaches, and workflow. J Therm Biol 2015; 53:180-97. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2015.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Revised: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Jakobs R, Gariepy TD, Sinclair BJ. Adult plasticity of cold tolerance in a continental-temperate population of Drosophila suzukii. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 79:1-9. [PMID: 25982520 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2015] [Revised: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/08/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is a worldwide emerging pest of soft fruits, but its cold tolerance has not been thoroughly explored. We determined the cold tolerance strategy, low temperature thermal limits, and plasticity of cold tolerance in both male and female adult D. suzukii. We reared flies under common conditions (long days, 21°C; control) and induced plasticity by rapid cold-hardening (RCH, 1h at 0°C followed by 1h recovery), cold acclimation (CA, 5 days at 6°C) or acclimation under fluctuating temperatures (FA). D. suzukii had supercooling points (SCPs) between -16 and -23°C, and were chill-susceptible. 80% of control flies were killed after 1h at -7.2°C (males) or -7.5°C (females); CA and FA improved survival of this temperature in both sexes, but RCH did not. 80% of control flies were killed after 70 h (male) or 92 h (female) at 0°C, and FA shifted this to 112 h (males) and 165 h (females). FA flies entered chill coma (CTmin) at approximately -1.7°C, which was ca. 0.5°C colder than control flies; RCH and CA increased the CTmin compared to controls. Control and RCH flies exposed to 0°C for 8h took 30-40 min to recover movement, but this was reduced to <10 min in CA and FA. Flies placed outside in a field cage in London, Ontario, were all killed by a transient cold snap in December. We conclude that adult phenotypic plasticity is not sufficient to allow D. suzukii to overwinter in temperate habitats, and suggest that flies could overwinter in association with built structures, or that there may be additional cold tolerance imparted by developmental plasticity.
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- Ruth Jakobs
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
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Coello Alvarado LE, MacMillan HA, Sinclair BJ. Chill-tolerant Gryllus crickets maintain ion balance at low temperatures. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 77:15-25. [PMID: 25846013 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2015] [Revised: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 03/31/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Insect cold tolerance is both phenotypically-plastic and evolutionarily labile, but the mechanisms underlying this variation are uncertain. Chill-susceptible insects lose ion and water homeostasis in the cold, which contributes to the development of injuries and eventually death. We thus hypothesized that more cold-tolerant insects will better maintain ion and water balance at low temperatures. We used rapid cold-hardening (RCH) and cold acclimation to improve cold tolerance of male Gryllus pennsylvanicus, and also compared this species to its cold-tolerant relative (Gryllus veletis). Cold acclimation and RCH decreased the critical thermal minimum (CTmin) and chill coma recovery time (CCR) in G. pennsylvanicus, but while cold acclimation improved survival of 0 °C, RCH did not; G. veletis was consistently more cold-tolerant (and had lower CCR and CTmin) than G. pennsylvanicus. During cold exposure, hemolymph water and Na(+) migrated to the gut of warm-acclimated G. pennsylvanicus, which increased hemolymph [K(+)] and decreased muscle K(+) equilibrium potentials. By contrast, cold-acclimated G. pennsylvanicus suffered a smaller loss of ion and water homeostasis during cold exposure, and this redistribution did not occur at all in cold-exposed G. veletis. The loss of ion and water balance was similar between RCH and warm-acclimated G. pennsylvanicus, suggesting that different mechanisms underlie decreased CCR and CTmin compared to increased survival at 0 °C. We conclude that increased tolerance of chilling is associated with improved maintenance of ion and water homeostasis in the cold, and that this is consistent for both phenotypic plasticity and evolved cold tolerance.
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
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Udaka H, Percival-Smith A, Sinclair BJ. Increased abundance of frost mRNA during recovery from cold stress is not essential for cold tolerance in adult Drosophila melanogaster. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 22:541-550. [PMID: 23901849 DOI: 10.1111/imb.12044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Frost (Fst) is a candidate gene associated with the response to cold in Drosophila melanogaster because Fst mRNA accumulation increases during recovery from low temperature exposure. We investigated the contribution of Fst expression to chill-coma recovery time, acute cold tolerance and rapid cold hardening (RCH) in adult D. melanogaster by knocking down Fst mRNA expression using GAL4/UAS-mediated RNA interference. In this experiment, four UAS-Fst and one tubulin-GAL4 lines were used. We predicted that if Fst is essential for cold tolerance phenotypes, flies with low Fst mRNA levels should be less cold tolerant than flies with normal levels of cold-induced Fst mRNA. Cold-induced Fst abundance and recovery time from chill-coma were not negatively correlated in male or female flies. Survival of 2 h exposures to sub-zero temperatures in Fst knockdown lines was not lower than that in a control line. Moreover, a low temperature pretreatment increased survival of severe cold exposure in flies regardless of Fst abundance level during recovery from cold stress, suggesting that Fst expression is not essential for RCH. Thus, cold-induced Fst accumulation is not essential for cold tolerance measured as chill-coma recovery time, survival to acute cold stress and RCH response in adult D. melanogaster.
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- H Udaka
- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
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Sinclair BJ, Ferguson LV, Salehipour-shirazi G, MacMillan HA. Cross-tolerance and Cross-talk in the Cold: Relating Low Temperatures to Desiccation and Immune Stress in Insects. Integr Comp Biol 2013; 53:545-56. [DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Kobey RL, Montooth KL. Mortality from desiccation contributes to a genotype-temperature interaction for cold survival in Drosophila melanogaster. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [PMID: 23197100 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.076539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Survival at cold temperatures is a complex trait, primarily because of the fact that the physiological cause of injury may differ across degrees of cold exposure experienced within the lifetime of an ectothermic individual. In order to better understand how chill-sensitive insects experience and adapt to low temperatures, we investigated the physiological basis for cold survival across a range of temperature exposures from -4 to 6°C in five genetic lines of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Genetic effects on cold survival were temperature dependent and resulted in a significant genotype-temperature interaction for survival across cold temperature exposures that differ by as little as 2°C. We investigated desiccation as a potential mechanism of injury across these temperature exposures. Flies were dehydrated following exposures near 6°C, whereas flies were not dehydrated following exposures near -4°C. Furthermore, decreasing humidity during cold exposure decreased survival, and increasing humidity during cold exposure increased survival at 6°C, but not at -4°C. These results support the conclusion that in D. melanogaster there are multiple physiological mechanisms of cold-induced mortality across relatively small differences in temperature, and that desiccation contributes to mortality for exposures near 6°C but not for subzero temperatures. Because D. melanogaster has recently expanded its range from tropical to temperate latitudes, the complex physiologies underlying cold tolerance are likely to be important traits in the recent evolutionary history of this fruit fly.
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- Robert L Kobey
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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Sinclair BJ, Williams CM, Terblanche JS. Variation in Thermal Performance among Insect Populations. Physiol Biochem Zool 2012; 85:594-606. [DOI: 10.1086/665388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Robinson BG, Khurana S, Pohl JB, Li WK, Ghezzi A, Cady AM, Najjar K, Hatch MM, Shah RR, Bhat A, Hariri O, Haroun KB, Young MC, Fife K, Hooten J, Tran T, Goan D, Desai F, Husain F, Godinez RM, Sun JC, Corpuz J, Moran J, Zhong AC, Chen WY, Atkinson NS. A low concentration of ethanol impairs learning but not motor and sensory behavior in Drosophila larvae. PLoS One 2012; 7:e37394. [PMID: 22624024 PMCID: PMC3356251 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2011] [Accepted: 04/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Drosophila melanogaster has proven to be a useful model system for the genetic analysis of ethanol-associated behaviors. However, past studies have focused on the response of the adult fly to large, and often sedating, doses of ethanol. The pharmacological effects of low and moderate quantities of ethanol have remained understudied. In this study, we tested the acute effects of low doses of ethanol (∼7 mM internal concentration) on Drosophila larvae. While ethanol did not affect locomotion or the response to an odorant, we observed that ethanol impaired associative olfactory learning when the heat shock unconditioned stimulus (US) intensity was low but not when the heat shock US intensity was high. We determined that the reduction in learning at low US intensity was not a result of ethanol anesthesia since ethanol-treated larvae responded to the heat shock in the same manner as untreated animals. Instead, low doses of ethanol likely impair the neuronal plasticity that underlies olfactory associative learning. This impairment in learning was reversible indicating that exposure to low doses of ethanol does not leave any long lasting behavioral or physiological effects.
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- Brooks G. Robinson
- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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Le Bourg É. Combined effects of two mild stresses (cold and hypergravity) on longevity, behavioral aging, and resistance to severe stresses in Drosophila melanogaster. Biogerontology 2012; 13:313-28. [DOI: 10.1007/s10522-012-9377-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2012] [Accepted: 02/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bing X, Zhang J, Sinclair BJ. A comparison of Frost expression among species and life stages of Drosophila. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 21:31-39. [PMID: 21955087 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2011.01108.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Frost (Fst) is a gene associated with cold exposure in Drosophila melanogaster. We used real-time PCR to assess whether cold exposure induces expression of Fst in 10 different life stages of D. melanogaster, and adults of seven other Drosophila species. We exposed groups of individuals to 0 °C (2 h), followed by 1 h recovery (22 °C). Frost was significantly upregulated in response to cold in eggs, third instar larvae, and 2- and 5-day-old male and female adults in D. melanogaster. Life stages in which cold did not upregulate Fst had high constitutive expression. Frost is located on the opposite strand of an intron of Diuretic hormone (DH), but cold exposure did not upregulate DH. Frost orthologues were identified in six other species within the Melanogaster group (Drosophila sechellia, Drosophila simulans, Drosophila yakuba, Drosophila erecta, Drosophila ananassae and Drosophila mauritiana). Frost orthologues were upregulated in response to cold exposure in both sexes in adults of all of these species. The predicted structure of a putative Frost consensus protein shows highly conserved tandem repeats of motifs involved in cell signalling (PEST and TRAF2), suggesting that Fst might encode an adaptor protein involved in acute stress or apoptosis signalling in vivo.
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- X Bing
- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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Zhang J, Marshall KE, Westwood JT, Clark MS, Sinclair BJ. Divergent transcriptomic responses to repeated and single cold exposures in Drosophila melanogaster. J Exp Biol 2011; 214:4021-9. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.059535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Insects in the field are exposed to multiple bouts of cold, and there is increasing evidence that the fitness consequences of repeated cold exposure differ from the impacts of a single cold exposure. We tested the hypothesis that different kinds of cold exposure (in this case, single short, prolonged and repeated cold exposure) would result in differential gene expression. We exposed 3 day old adult female wild-type Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) to –0.5°C for a single 2 h exposure, a single 10 h exposure, or five 2 h exposures on consecutive days, and extracted RNA after 6 h of recovery. Global gene expression was quantified using an oligonucleotide microarray and validated with real-time PCR using different biological replicates. We identified 76 genes upregulated in response to multiple cold exposure, 69 in response to prolonged cold exposure and 20 genes upregulated in response to a single short cold exposure, with a small amount of overlap between treatments. Three genes – Turandot A, Hephaestus and CG11374 – were upregulated in response to all three cold exposure treatments. Key functional groups upregulated include genes associated with muscle structure and function, the immune response, stress response, carbohydrate metabolism and egg production. We conclude that cold exposure has wide-ranging effects on gene expression in D. melanogaster and that increased duration or frequency of cold exposure has impacts different to those of a single short cold exposure. This has important implications for extrapolating laboratory studies of insect overwintering that are based on only a single cold exposure.
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- Jian Zhang
- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
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- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
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- Canadian Drosophila Microarray Centre, Department of Biology, The University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge CB1 9XU, UK
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- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
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Ransberry VE, MacMillan HA, Sinclair BJ. The Relationship between Chill-Coma Onset and Recovery at the Extremes of the Thermal Window of Drosophila melanogaster. Physiol Biochem Zool 2011; 84:553-9. [DOI: 10.1086/662642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Long-term cold acclimation extends survival time at 0°C and modifies the metabolomic profiles of the larvae of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 2011; 6:e25025. [PMID: 21957472 PMCID: PMC3177886 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2011] [Accepted: 08/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Drosophila melanogaster is a chill-susceptible insect. Previous studies on this fly focused on acute direct chilling injury during cold shock and showed that lower lethal temperature (LLT, approximately -5°C) exhibits relatively low plasticity and that acclimations, both rapid cold hardening (RCH) and long-term cold acclimation, shift the LLT by only a few degrees at the maximum. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We found that long-term cold acclimation considerably improved cold tolerance in fully grown third-instar larvae of D. melanogaster. A comparison of the larvae acclimated at constant 25°C with those acclimated at constant 15°C followed by constant 6°C for 2 d (15°C→6°C) showed that long-term cold acclimation extended the lethal time for 50% of the population (Lt(50)) during exposure to constant 0°C as much as 630-fold (from 0.137 h to 86.658 h). Such marked physiological plasticity in Lt(50) (in contrast to LLT) suggested that chronic indirect chilling injury at 0°C differs from that caused by cold shock. Long-term cold acclimation modified the metabolomic profiles of the larvae. Accumulations of proline (up to 17.7 mM) and trehalose (up to 36.5 mM) were the two most prominent responses. In addition, restructuring of the glycerophospholipid composition of biological membranes was observed. The relative proportion of glycerophosphoethanolamines (especially those with linoleic acid at the sn-2 position) increased at the expense of glycerophosphocholines. CONCLUSION Third-instar larvae of D. melanogaster improved their cold tolerance in response to long-term cold acclimation and showed metabolic potential for the accumulation of proline and trehalose and for membrane restructuring.
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Nyamukondiwa C, Terblanche JS, Marshall KE, Sinclair BJ. Basal cold but not heat tolerance constrains plasticity among Drosophila species (Diptera: Drosophilidae). J Evol Biol 2011; 24:1927-38. [PMID: 21658189 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02324.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Thermal tolerance and its plasticity are important for understanding ectotherm responses to climate change. However, it is unclear whether plasticity is traded-off at the expense of basal thermal tolerance and whether plasticity is subject to phylogenetic constraints. Here, we investigated associations between basal thermal tolerance and acute plasticity thereof in laboratory-reared adult males of eighteen Drosophila species at low and high temperatures. We determined the high and low temperatures where 90% of flies are killed (ULT(90) and LLT(90) , respectively) and also the magnitude of plasticity of acute thermal pretreatments (i.e. rapid cold- and heat-hardening) using a standardized, species-specific approach for the induction of hardening responses. Regression analyses of survival variation were conducted in ordinary and phylogenetically informed approaches. Low-temperature pretreatments significantly improved LLT(90) in all species tested except for D. pseudoobscura, D. mojavensis and D. borealis. High-temperature pretreatment only significantly increased ULT(90) in D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. LLT(90) was negatively correlated with low-temperature plasticity even after phylogeny was accounted for. No correlations were found between ULT(90) and LLT(90) or between ULT(90) and rapid heat-hardening (RHH) in ordinary regression approaches. However, after phylogenetic adjustment, there was a positive correlation between ULT(90) and RHH. These results suggest a trade-off between basal low-temperature tolerance and acute low-temperature plasticity, but at high temperatures, increased basal tolerance was accompanied by increased plasticity. Furthermore, high- and low-temperature tolerances and their plasticity are clearly decoupled. These results are of broad significance to understanding how organisms respond to changes in habitat temperature and the degree to which they can adjust thermal sensitivity.
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- C Nyamukondiwa
- Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag ×1, Matieland, South Africa.
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Strachan LA, Tarnowski-Garner HE, Marshall KE, Sinclair BJ. The Evolution of Cold Tolerance in Drosophila Larvae. Physiol Biochem Zool 2011; 84:43-53. [DOI: 10.1086/657147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Macalpine JLP, Marshall KE, Sinclair BJ. The effects of CO(2) and chronic cold exposure on fecundity of female Drosophila melanogaster. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 57:35-37. [PMID: 20868691 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2010] [Revised: 09/14/2010] [Accepted: 09/15/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Carbon dioxide and chilling are sometimes used to immobilise insects for laboratory research. Both of these methods are known to have short-term effects on behaviour and physiology in Drosophila, but their long-term impacts are unknown. We exposed female D. melanogaster adults to high CO(2) concentrations (4h at 18,000ppm) and chronic cold (72h at 4°C). The carbon dioxide exposure increased chill coma recovery time, but did not result in changes in offspring number, sex ratio, or size. By contrast, the cold exposure resulted in fewer, smaller offspring, and resulted in a male-biased sex ratio compared to controls. There was no significant interaction between CO(2) and cold. We conclude that although caution must be used in choosing an immobilisation method, CO(2) appears to have less long-term impact than cold.
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Fischer K, Dierks A, Franke K, Geister TL, Liszka M, Winter S, Pflicke C. Environmental effects on temperature stress resistance in the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15284. [PMID: 21187968 PMCID: PMC3004918 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2010] [Accepted: 11/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background The ability to withstand thermal stress is considered to be of crucial importance for individual fitness and species' survival. Thus, organisms need to employ effective mechanisms to ensure survival under stressful thermal conditions, among which phenotypic plasticity is considered a particularly quick and effective one. Methodology/Principal Findings In a series of experiments we here investigate phenotypic adjustment in temperature stress resistance following environmental manipulations in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Cooler compared to warmer acclimation temperatures generally increased cold but decreased heat stress resistance and vice versa. In contrast, short-time hardening responses revealed more complex patterns, with, e.g., cold stress resistance being highest at intermediate hardening temperatures. Adult food stress had a negative effect on heat but not on cold stress resistance. Additionally, larval feeding treatment showed interactive effects with adult feeding for heat but not for cold stress resistance, indicating that nitrogenous larval resources may set an upper limit to performance under heat stress. In contrast to expectations, cold resistance slightly increased during the first eight days of adult life. Light cycle had marginal effects on temperature stress resistance only, with cold resistance tending to be higher during daytime and thus active periods. Conclusions/Significance Our results highlight that temperature-induced plasticity provides an effective tool to quickly and strongly modulate temperature stress resistance, and that such responses are readily reversible. However, resistance traits are not only affected by ambient temperature, but also by, e.g., food availability and age, making their measurement challenging. The latter effects are largely underexplored and deserve more future attention. Owing to their magnitude, plastic responses in thermal tolerance should be incorporated into models trying to forecast effects of global change on extant biodiversity.
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- Klaus Fischer
- Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
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Udaka H, Ueda C, Goto SG. Survival rate and expression of Heat-shock protein 70 and Frost genes after temperature stress in Drosophila melanogaster lines that are selected for recovery time from temperature coma. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 56:1889-1894. [PMID: 20713057 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2010] [Revised: 08/06/2010] [Accepted: 08/06/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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In this study, we investigated the physiological mechanisms underlying temperature tolerance using Drosophila melanogaster lines with rapid, intermediate, or slow recovery from heat or chill coma that were established by artificial selection or by free recombination without selection. Specifically, we focused on the relationships among their recovery from heat or chill coma, survival after severe heat or cold, and survival enhanced by rapid cold hardening (RCH) or heat hardening. The recovery time from heat coma was not related to the survival rate after severe heat. The line with rapid recovery from chill coma showed a higher survival rate after severe cold exposure, and therefore the same mechanisms are likely to underlie these phenotypes. The recovery time from chill coma and survival rate after severe cold were unrelated to RCH-enhanced survival. We also examined the expression of two genes, Heat-shock protein 70 (Hsp70) and Frost, in these lines to understand the contribution of these stress-inducible genes to intraspecific variation in recovery from temperature coma. The line showing rapid recovery from heat coma did not exhibit higher expression of Hsp70 and Frost. In addition, Hsp70 and Frost transcription levels were not correlated with the recovery time from chill coma. Thus, Hsp70 and Frost transcriptional regulation was not involved in the intraspecific variation in recovery from temperature coma.
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- Hiroko Udaka
- Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558 8585, Japan
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Sinclair BJ, Gibbs AG, Lee WK, Rajamohan A, Roberts SP, Socha JJ. Synchrotron x-ray visualisation of ice formation in insects during lethal and non-lethal freezing. PLoS One 2009; 4:e8259. [PMID: 20011523 PMCID: PMC2788418 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2009] [Accepted: 11/19/2009] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Although the biochemical correlates of freeze tolerance in insects are becoming well-known, the process of ice formation in vivo is subject to speculation. We used synchrotron x-rays to directly visualise real-time ice formation at 3.3 Hz in intact insects. We observed freezing in diapausing 3rd instar larvae of Chymomyza amoena (Diptera: Drosophilidae), which survive freezing if it occurs above −14°C, and non-diapausing 3rd instar larvae of C. amoena and Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae), neither of which survive freezing. Freezing was readily observed in all larvae, and on one occasion the gut was seen to freeze separately from the haemocoel. There were no apparent qualitative differences in ice formation between freeze tolerant and non-freeze tolerant larvae. The time to complete freezing was positively related to temperature of nucleation (supercooling point, SCP), and SCP declined with decreasing body size, although this relationship was less strong in diapausing C. amoena. Nucleation generally occurred at a contact point with the thermocouple or chamber wall in non-diapausing larvae, but at random in diapausing larvae, suggesting that the latter have some control over ice nucleation. There were no apparent differences between freeze tolerant and non-freeze tolerant larvae in tracheal displacement or distension of the body during freezing, although there was markedly more distension in D. melanogaster than in C. amoena regardless of diapause state. We conclude that although control of ice nucleation appears to be important in freeze tolerant individuals, the physical ice formation process itself does not differ among larvae that can and cannot survive freezing. This suggests that a focus on cellular and biochemical mechanisms is appropriate and may reveal the primary adaptations allowing freeze tolerance in insects.
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- Brent J Sinclair
- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. mailto:
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Le Bourg É. Combined effects of suppressing live yeast and of a cold pretreatment on longevity, aging and resistance to several stresses in Drosophila melanogaster. Biogerontology 2009; 11:245-54. [DOI: 10.1007/s10522-009-9250-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2009] [Accepted: 09/29/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kostál V, Tollarová-Borovanská M. The 70 kDa heat shock protein assists during the repair of chilling injury in the insect, Pyrrhocoris apterus. PLoS One 2009; 4:e4546. [PMID: 19229329 PMCID: PMC2639642 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2008] [Accepted: 01/09/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Pyrrhocoris apterus (Insecta: Heteroptera) adults attain high levels of cold tolerance during their overwintering diapause. Non-diapause reproducing adults, however, lack the capacity to express a whole array of cold-tolerance adaptations and show relatively low survival when exposed to sub-zero temperatures. We assessed the competence of non-diapause males of P. apterus for responding to heat- and cold-stresses by up-regulation of 70 kDa heat shock proteins (Hsps) and the role of Hsps during repair of heat- and cold-induced injury. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The fragments of P. apterus homologues of Hsp70 inducible (PaHsp70) and cognate forms (PaHsc70) were cloned and sequenced. The abundance of mRNA transcripts for the inducible form (qPCR) and corresponding protein (Western blotting) were significantly up-regulated in response to high and low temperature stimuli. In the cognate form, mRNA was slightly up-regulated in response to both stressors but very low or no up-regulation of protein was apparent after heat- or cold-stress, respectively. Injection of 695 bp-long Pahsp70 dsRNA (RNAi) caused drastic suppression of the heat- and cold-stress-induced Pahsp70 mRNA response and the up-regulation of corresponding protein was practically eliminated. Our RNAi predictably prevented recovery from heat shock and, in addition, negatively influenced repair of chilling injuries caused by cold stress. Cold tolerance increased when the insects were first exposed to a mild heat shock, in order to trigger the up-regulation of PaHsp70, and subsequently exposed to cold stress. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that accumulation of PaHsp70 belongs to a complex cold tolerance adaptation in the insect Pyrrhocoris apterus.
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- Vladimír Kostál
- Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Entomology, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic.
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Sinclair BJ, Rajamohan A. Slow and stepped re-warming after acute low temperature exposure do not improve survival of Drosophila melanogaster larvae. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 2008; 140:306-311. [PMID: 19122879 PMCID: PMC2528286 DOI: 10.4039/n08-010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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We tested that hypothesis that slow re-warming rates would improve the ability of Drosophila melanogaster Meigen larvae to survive acute low temperature exposure. Four larval stages (1(st), 2(nd), 3(rd) instars and wandering stage 3(rd) instars) of four wild-type strains were exposed to -7 degrees C for periods of time expected to result in 90 % mortality. Larvae were then either directly transferred to their rearing temperature (21 degrees C), or returned to this temperature in a stepwise fashion (pausing at 0 and 15 degrees C) or by slow warming at 1 or 0.1 degrees C/min. We observed a reduced rapid cold-hardening effect and no general increase in survival of acute chilling in larvae re-warmed in a stepwise or slow fashion, and hypothesise that slow re-warming may result in accumulation of further chill injuries.
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- Brent J. Sinclair
- *Corresponding author: tel. 519-661-2111 ext 83138; fax 519-661-3935, email
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