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Palmer RM, Sandbach A, Buckley BA. Tissue-specific effects of temperature and salinity on the cell cycle and apoptosis in the Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2024; 297:111706. [PMID: 39033849 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2024] [Revised: 07/09/2024] [Accepted: 07/18/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
Abstract
The Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) evolved in warm, freshwater rivers, but possesses a broad physiological tolerance to a range of environmental conditions. Due to this hardiness and resilience, this species has been successfully introduced to regions widely outside of its native range. Here, we examine the impact of temperature and salinity variation on this species at the sub-lethal level. Specifically, Nile Tilapia were exposed to two temperatures (21 °C or 14 °C) and three salinities (0, 16, 34 ppt) for 1-h. Given their native habitat, the 21 °C / 0 ppt exposure was considered the control condition. Both cell cycle arrest and apoptosis represent sub-lethal but deleterious responses to environmental stress. Flow cytometry was used to assess the percentage of cells in a given stage of the cell cycle as a metric of cell cycle arrest in spleen and liver. Percentage of apoptotic cells were also quantified. Spleen was more sensitive to cold stress, demonstrating an increase in cells in the G2/M phase after experimental treatment. Liver, however, was more sensitive to salinity stress, with a significant increase in cells stalled in G2/M phase at higher salinities, which is in keeping with the freshwater evolutionary history of the species. A modest apoptotic signal was observed in liver but not in spleen. Together, these findings demonstrate that even short, acute exposures to cold temperatures and elevated salinity can cause sub-lethal damage in a species that is otherwise tolerant of environmental stress at the whole organism level.
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- Rachel M Palmer
- Department of Biology, Center for Life in Extreme Environments, Portland State University, Portland 97207, United States
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- Department of Biology, Center for Life in Extreme Environments, Portland State University, Portland 97207, United States
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- Department of Biology, Center for Life in Extreme Environments, Portland State University, Portland 97207, United States.
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Zhang M, Aykroyd RG, Tsoumpas C. Mixture prior distributions and Bayesian models for robust radionuclide image processing. FRONTIERS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE (LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 4:1380518. [PMID: 39355208 PMCID: PMC11440870 DOI: 10.3389/fnume.2024.1380518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 08/13/2024] [Indexed: 10/03/2024]
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The diagnosis of medical conditions and subsequent treatment often involves radionuclide imaging techniques. To refine localisation accuracy and improve diagnostic confidence, compared with the use of a single scanning technique, a combination of two (or more) techniques can be used but with a higher risk of misalignment. For this to be reliable and accurate, recorded data undergo processing to suppress noise and enhance resolution. A step in image processing techniques for such inverse problems is the inclusion of smoothing. Standard approaches, however, are usually limited to applying identical models globally. In this study, we propose a novel Laplace and Gaussian mixture prior distribution that incorporates different smoothing strategies with the automatic model-based estimation of mixture component weightings creating a locally adaptive model. A fully Bayesian approach is presented using multi-level hierarchical modelling and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation methods to sample from the posterior distribution and hence perform estimation. The proposed methods are assessed using simulated γ -eye TM camera images and demonstrate greater noise reduction than existing methods but without compromising resolution. As well as image estimates, the MCMC methods also provide posterior variance estimates and hence uncertainty quantification takes into consideration any potential sources of variability. The use of mixture prior models, part Laplace random field and part Gaussian random field, within a Bayesian modelling approach is not limited to medical imaging applications but provides a more general framework for analysing other spatial inverse problems. Locally adaptive prior distributions provide a more realistic model, which leads to robust results and hence more reliable decision-making, especially in nuclear medicine. They can become a standard part of the toolkit of everyone working in image processing applications.
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- Muyang Zhang
- Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Haddock SHD, Choy CA. Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals. ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE 2024; 16:383-416. [PMID: 38231738 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-031623-095435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
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The water column of the deep ocean is dark, cold, low in food, and under crushing pressures, yet it is full of diverse life. Due to its enormous volume, this mesopelagic zone is home to some of the most abundant animals on the planet. Rather than struggling to survive, they thrive-owing to a broad set of adaptations for feeding, behavior, and physiology. Our understanding of these adaptations is constrained by the tools available for exploring the deep sea, but this tool kit is expanding along with technological advances. Each time we apply a new method to the depths, we gain surprising insights about genetics, ecology, behavior, physiology, diversity, and the dynamics of change. These discoveries show structure within the seemingly uniform habitat, limits to the seemingly inexhaustible resources, and vulnerability in the seemingly impervious environment. To understand midwater ecology, we need to reimagine the rules that govern terrestrial ecosystems. By spending more time at depth-with whatever tools are available-we can fill the knowledge gaps and better link ecology to the environment throughout the water column.
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- Steven H D Haddock
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, USA;
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA;
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Dong YW. Roles of multi-level temperature-adaptive responses and microhabitat variation in establishing distributions of intertidal species. J Exp Biol 2023; 226:jeb245745. [PMID: 37909420 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245745] [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: 11/03/2023]
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How intertidal species survive their harsh environment and how best to evaluate and forecast range shifts in species distribution are two important and closely related questions for intertidal ecologists and global change biologists. Adaptive variation in responses of organisms to environmental change across all levels of biological organization - from behavior to molecular systems - is of key importance in setting distribution patterns, yet studies often neglect the interactions of diverse types of biological variation (e.g. differences in thermal optima owing to genetic and acclimation-induced effects) with environmental variation, notably at the scale of microhabitats. Intertidal species have to cope with extreme and frequently changing thermal stress, and have shown high variation in thermal sensitivities and adaptive responses at different levels of biological organization. Here, I review the physiological and biochemical adaptations of intertidal species to environmental temperature on multiple spatial and temporal scales. With fine-scale datasets for the thermal limits of individuals and for environmental temperature variation at the microhabitat scale, we can map the thermal sensitivity for each individual in different microhabitats, and then scale up the thermal sensitivity analysis to the population level and, finally, to the species level by incorporating physiological traits into species distribution models. These more refined mechanistic models that include consideration of physiological variations have higher predictive power than models that neglect these variations, and they will be crucial to answering the questions posed above concerning adaptive mechanisms and the roles they play in governing distribution patterns in a rapidly changing world.
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- Yun-Wei Dong
- Ministry Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266001, China
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Rangan KJ, Reck-Peterson SL. RNA recoding in cephalopods tailors microtubule motor protein function. Cell 2023; 186:2531-2543.e11. [PMID: 37295401 PMCID: PMC10467349 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.04.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Revised: 03/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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RNA editing is a widespread epigenetic process that can alter the amino acid sequence of proteins, termed "recoding." In cephalopods, most transcripts are recoded, and recoding is hypothesized to be an adaptive strategy to generate phenotypic plasticity. However, how animals use RNA recoding dynamically is largely unexplored. We investigated the function of cephalopod RNA recoding in the microtubule motor proteins kinesin and dynein. We found that squid rapidly employ RNA recoding in response to changes in ocean temperature, and kinesin variants generated in cold seawater displayed enhanced motile properties in single-molecule experiments conducted in the cold. We also identified tissue-specific recoded squid kinesin variants that displayed distinct motile properties. Finally, we showed that cephalopod recoding sites can guide the discovery of functional substitutions in non-cephalopod kinesin and dynein. Thus, RNA recoding is a dynamic mechanism that generates phenotypic plasticity in cephalopods and can inform the characterization of conserved non-cephalopod proteins.
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- Kavita J Rangan
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Weidig NC, Miller AL, Parker AT. The Goldilocks principle: Finding the balance between water volume and nutrients for ovipositing Culex mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). PLoS One 2022; 17:e0277237. [PMID: 36355844 PMCID: PMC9648744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Females of container-breeding mosquito species use visual and chemical cues to determine suitable habitats to oviposit their eggs. Female Culex mosquitoes oviposit single egg rafts containing hundreds of eggs on the surface of water in container habitats. In this project, the effects of water volume and nutrient concentration were studied using three semi-controlled field assays to determine the role these parameters play on female Culex mosquito oviposition preference. The results of this study suggest female Culex prefer to oviposit in larger volumes of water and higher concentrations of nutrients separately, but chose intermediate conditions when presented with a combination of these two variables, which follows the Goldilocks principle. This choice may provide their offspring with optimal conditions for development by reducing intraspecific competition, thereby maximizing the biological fitness of the ovipositing Culex females.
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- Noah C. Weidig
- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States of America
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Chown SL. Macrophysiology for decision‐making. J Zool (1987) 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- S. L. Chown
- Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences Monash University Melbourne Victoria Australia
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Somero GN. Solutions: how adaptive changes in cellular fluids enable marine life to cope with abiotic stressors. MARINE LIFE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 4:389-413. [PMID: 37073170 PMCID: PMC10077225 DOI: 10.1007/s42995-022-00140-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The seas confront organisms with a suite of abiotic stressors that pose challenges for physiological activity. Variations in temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and salinity have potential to disrupt structures, and functions of all molecular systems on which life depends. During evolution, sequences of nucleic acids and proteins are adaptively modified to "fit" these macromolecules for function under the particular abiotic conditions of the habitat. Complementing these macromolecular adaptations are alterations in compositions of solutions that bathe macromolecules and affect stabilities of their higher order structures. A primary result of these "micromolecular" adaptations is preservation of optimal balances between conformational rigidity and flexibility of macromolecules. Micromolecular adaptations involve several families of organic osmolytes, with varying effects on macromolecular stability. A given type of osmolyte generally has similar effects on DNA, RNA, proteins and membranes; thus, adaptive regulation of cellular osmolyte pools has a global effect on macromolecules. These effects are mediated largely through influences of osmolytes and macromolecules on water structure and activity. Acclimatory micromolecular responses are often critical in enabling organisms to cope with environmental changes during their lifetimes, for example, during vertical migration in the water column. A species' breadth of environmental tolerance may depend on how effectively it can vary the osmolyte composition of its cellular fluids in the face of stress. Micromolecular adaptations remain an under-appreciated aspect of evolution and acclimatization. Further study can lead to a better understanding of determinants of environmental tolerance ranges and to biotechnological advances in designing improved stabilizers for biological materials.
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- George N. Somero
- Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 USA
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Thermal adaptation of mRNA secondary structure: stability versus lability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2113324118. [PMID: 34728561 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113324118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Macromolecular function commonly involves rapidly reversible alterations in three-dimensional structure (conformation). To allow these essential conformational changes, macromolecules must possess higher order structures that are appropriately balanced between rigidity and flexibility. Because of the low stabilization free energies (marginal stabilities) of macromolecule conformations, temperature changes have strong effects on conformation and, thereby, on function. As is well known for proteins, during evolution, temperature-adaptive changes in sequence foster retention of optimal marginal stability at a species' normal physiological temperatures. Here, we extend this type of analysis to messenger RNAs (mRNAs), a class of macromolecules for which the stability-lability balance has not been elucidated. We employ in silico methods to determine secondary structures and estimate changes in free energy of folding (ΔGfold) for 25 orthologous mRNAs that encode the enzyme cytosolic malate dehydrogenase in marine mollusks with adaptation temperatures spanning an almost 60 °C range. The change in free energy that occurs during formation of the ensemble of mRNA secondary structures is significantly correlated with adaptation temperature: ΔGfold values are all negative and their absolute values increase with adaptation temperature. A principal mechanism underlying these adaptations is a significant increase in synonymous guanine + cytosine substitutions with increasing temperature. These findings open up an avenue of exploration in molecular evolution and raise interesting questions about the interaction between temperature-adaptive changes in mRNA sequence and in the proteins they encode.
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Dong YW, Liao ML, Han GD, Somero GN. An integrated, multi-level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2021; 97:554-581. [PMID: 34713568 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Elucidating the physiological mechanisms that underlie thermal stress and discovering how species differ in capacities for phenotypic acclimatization and evolutionary adaptation to this stress is critical for understanding current latitudinal and vertical distribution patterns of species and for predicting their future state in a warming world. Such mechanistic analyses require careful choice of study systems (species and temperature-sensitive traits) and design of laboratory experiments that reflect the complexities of in situ conditions. Here, we critically review a wide range of studies of intertidal molluscs that provide mechanistic accounts of thermal effects across all levels of biological organization - behavioural, organismal, organ level, cellular, molecular, and genomic - and show how temperature-sensitive traits govern distribution patterns and capacities for coping with thermal stress. Comparisons of congeners from different thermal habitats are especially effective means for identifying adaptive variation. We employ these mechanistic analyses to illustrate how species differ in the severity of threats posed by rising temperature. Counterintuitively, we show that some of the most heat-tolerant species may be most threatened by increases in temperatures because of their small thermal safety margins and minimal abilities to acclimatize to higher temperatures. We discuss recent molecular biological and genomic studies that provide critical foundations for understanding the types of evolutionary changes in protein structure, RNA secondary structure, genome content, and gene expression capacities that underlie adaptation to temperature. Duplication of stress-related genes, as found in heat-tolerant molluscs, may provide enhanced capacity for coping with higher temperatures. We propose that the anatomical, behavioural, physiological, and genomic diversity found among intertidal molluscs, which commonly are of critical importance and high abundance in these ecosystems, makes this group of animals a highly appropriate study system for addressing questions about the mechanistic determinants of current and future distribution patterns of intertidal organisms.
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- Yun-Wei Dong
- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China.,Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Life Science, Yantai University, Yantai, 264005, China
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- Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, 93950, U.S.A
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