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Lipaeva P, Vereshchagina K, Drozdova P, Jakob L, Kondrateva E, Lucassen M, Bedulina D, Timofeyev M, Stadler P, Luckenbach T. Different ways to play it cool: Transcriptomic analysis sheds light on different activity patterns of three amphipod species under long-term cold exposure. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:5735-5751. [PMID: 34480774 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Species of littoral freshwater environments in regions with continental climate experience pronounced seasonal temperature changes. Coping with long cold winters and hot summers requires specific physiological and behavioural adaptations. Endemic amphipods of Lake Baikal, Eulimnogammarus verrucosus and Eulimnogammarus cyaneus, show high metabolic activity throughout the year; E. verrucosus even reproduces in winter. In contrast, the widespread Holarctic amphipod Gammarus lacustris overwinters in torpor. This study investigated the transcriptomic hallmarks of E. verrucosus, E. cyaneus and G. lacustris exposed to low water temperatures. Amphipods were exposed to 1.5°C and 12°C (corresponding to the mean winter and summer water temperatures, respectively, in the Baikal littoral) for one month. At 1.5°C, G. lacustris showed upregulation of ribosome biogenesis and mRNA processing genes, as well as downregulation of genes related to growth, reproduction and locomotor activity, indicating enhanced energy allocation to somatic maintenance. Our results suggest that the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling pathway is involved in the preparation for hibernation; downregulation of the actin cytoskeleton pathway genes could relate to the observed low locomotor activity of G. lacustris at 1.5°C. The differences between the transcriptomes of E. verrucosus and E. cyaneus from the 1.5°C and 12°C exposures were considerably smaller than for G. lacustris. In E. verrucosus, cold-exposure triggered reproductive activity was indicated by upregulation of respective genes, whereas in E. cyaneus, genes related to mitochondria functioning were upregulated, indicating cold compensation in this species. Our data elucidate the molecular characteristics behind the different adaptations of amphipod species from the Lake Baikal area to winter conditions.
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- Polina Lipaeva
- Department of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia.,Baikal Research Centre, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia.,Baikal Research Centre, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia.,Baikal Research Centre, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia.,Baikal Research Centre, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad National de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.,Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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Finch G, Nandyal S, Perretta C, Davies B, Rosendale AJ, Holmes CJ, Gantz JD, Spacht DE, Bailey ST, Chen X, Oyen K, Didion EM, Chakraborty S, Lee RE, Denlinger DL, Matter SF, Attardo GM, Weirauch MT, Benoit JB. Multi-level analysis of reproduction in an Antarctic midge identifies female and male accessory gland products that are altered by larval stress and impact progeny viability. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19791. [PMID: 33188214 PMCID: PMC7666147 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76139-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica, is a wingless, non-biting midge endemic to Antarctica. Larval development requires at least 2 years, but adults live only 2 weeks. The nonfeeding adults mate in swarms and females die shortly after oviposition. Eggs are suspended in a gel of unknown composition that is expressed from the female accessory gland. This project characterizes molecular mechanisms underlying reproduction in this midge by examining differential gene expression in whole males, females, and larvae, as well as in male and female accessory glands. Functional studies were used to assess the role of the gel encasing the eggs, as well as the impact of stress on reproductive biology. RNA-seq analyses revealed sex- and development-specific gene sets along with those associated with the accessory glands. Proteomic analyses were used to define the composition of the egg-containing gel, which is generated during multiple developmental stages and derived from both the accessory gland and other female organs. Functional studies indicate the gel provides a larval food source as well as a buffer for thermal and dehydration stress. All of these function are critical to juvenile survival. Larval dehydration stress directly reduces production of storage proteins and key accessory gland components, a feature that impacts adult reproductive success. Modeling reveals that bouts of dehydration may have a significant impact on population growth. This work lays a foundation for further examination of reproduction in midges and provides new information related to general reproduction in dipterans. A key aspect of this work is that reproduction and stress dynamics, currently understudied in polar organisms, are likely to prove critical in determining how climate change will alter their survivability.
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- Geoffrey Finch
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Department of Biology, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
- Department of Biology and Health Science, Hendrix College, Conway, AR, USA
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- Departments of Entomology and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
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- Departments of Entomology and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
- Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 45267, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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Gbotsyo YA, Rowarth NM, Weir LK, MacRae TH. Short-term cold stress and heat shock proteins in the crustacean Artemia franciscana. Cell Stress Chaperones 2020; 25:1083-1097. [PMID: 32794096 PMCID: PMC7591681 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-020-01147-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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In their role as molecular chaperones, heat shock proteins (Hsps) mediate protein folding thereby mitigating cellular damage caused by physiological and environmental stress. Nauplii of the crustacean Artemia franciscana respond to heat shock by producing Hsps; however, the effects of cold shock on Hsp levels in A. franciscana have not been investigated previously. The effect of cold shock at 1 °C followed by recovery at 27 °C on the amounts of ArHsp90, Hsp70, ArHsp40, and ArHsp40-2 mRNA and their respective proteins in A. franciscana nauplii was examined by quantitative PCR (qPCR) and immunoprobing of western blots. The same Hsp mRNAs and proteins were also quantified during incubation of nauplii at their optimal growth temperature of 27 °C. qPCR analyses indicated that the abundance of ArHsp90, Hsp70, and ArHsp40 mRNA remained relatively constant during both cold shock and recovery and was not significantly different compared with levels at optimal temperature. Western blotting revealed that ArHsp90, ArHsp40, and ArHsp40-2 were generally below baseline, but at detectable levels during the 6 h of cold shock, and persisted in early recovery stages before declining. Hsp70 was the only protein that remained constant in quantity throughout cold shock and recovery. By contrast, all Hsps declined rapidly during 6 h when nauplii were incubated continuously at 27 °C optimal temperature. Generally, the amounts of ArHsp90, ArHsp40, and ArHsp40-2 were higher during cold shock/recovery than those during continuous incubation at 27 °C. Our data support the conclusion that low temperature preserves Hsp levels, making them available to assist in protein repair and recovery after cold shock.
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- Yayra A Gbotsyo
- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N. S., B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N. S., B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Biology Department, Saint Mary's University Halifax, Halifax, N. S., B3H 3C3, Canada.
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- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N. S., B3H 4R2, Canada
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Teets NM, Gantz JD, Kawarasaki Y. Rapid cold hardening: ecological relevance, physiological mechanisms and new perspectives. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020; 223:223/3/jeb203448. [PMID: 32051174 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.203448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Rapid cold hardening (RCH) is a type of phenotypic plasticity that allows ectotherms to quickly enhance cold tolerance in response to brief chilling (lasting minutes to hours). In this Review, we summarize the current state of knowledge of this important phenotype and provide new directions for research. As one of the fastest adaptive responses to temperature known, RCH allows ectotherms to cope with sudden cold snaps and to optimize their performance during diurnal cooling cycles. RCH and similar phenotypes have been observed across a diversity of ectotherms, including crustaceans, terrestrial arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, and fish. In addition to its well-defined role in enhancing survival to extreme cold, RCH also protects against nonlethal cold injury by preserving essential functions following cold stress, such as locomotion, reproduction, and energy balance. The capacity for RCH varies across species and across genotypes of the same species, indicating that RCH can be shaped by selection and is likely favored in thermally variable environments. Mechanistically, RCH is distinct from other rapid stress responses in that it typically does not involve synthesis of new gene products; rather, the existing cellular machinery regulates RCH through post-translational signaling mechanisms. However, the protective mechanisms that enhance cold hardiness are largely unknown. We provide evidence that RCH can be induced by multiple triggers in addition to low temperature, and that rapidly induced tolerance and cross-tolerance to a variety of environmental stressors may be a general feature of stress responses that requires further investigation.
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- Nicholas M Teets
- Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
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- Biology Department, Hendrix College, Conway, AK 72032, USA
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- Department of Biology, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN 56082, USA
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Wu D, Huang Y, Chen Q, Jiang Q, Li Y, Zhao Y. Effects and transcriptional responses in the hepatopancreas of red claw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus under cold stress. J Therm Biol 2019; 85:102404. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.102404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Revised: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Boroda AV, Kipryushina YO, Odintsova NA. Chemical modulation of apoptosis in molluscan cell cultures. Cell Stress Chaperones 2019; 24:905-916. [PMID: 31230213 PMCID: PMC6717236 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-019-01014-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 05/28/2019] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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This study focused on the alterations that occur in larval molluscan cells after administration of apoptotic inducers and inhibitors used in mammalian cells in response to cold stress. This is the first report on apoptosis modulation in molluscan cells assessed by flow cytometry. Mitochondrial activity, general caspase activation, and membrane integrity of control molluscan cells were compared to those processes in frozen-thawed molluscan cells, primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts, and human colon tumor cells prior to treatment and after incubation with apoptotic inducers or inhibitors. We tested three apoptotic inducers (staurosporine, camptothecin, and mitomycin C, routinely used for the chemical induction of apoptosis in different mammalian cells) and found that only staurosporine resulted in an evident apoptotic increase in molluscan cell cultures: 9.06% early apoptotic cells in comparison with 5.63% in control frozen-thawed cells and 20.6% late apoptotic cells in comparison with 10.68% in controls. Camptothecin did not significantly induce molluscan cell apoptosis but did cause a slight increase in the number of active cells after thawing. Mitomycin C produced similar results, but its effect was less pronounced. In addition, we hypothesize that the use of the apoptotic inhibitors could reduce apoptosis, which is significant after cryopreservation in molluscan cells; however, our attempts failed. Development in this direction is important for understanding the mechanisms of marine organisms' cold susceptibility.
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- Andrey Victorovich Boroda
- National Scientific Center of Marine Biology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky St, Vladivostok, Primorsky krai, 690041, Russia.
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- National Scientific Center of Marine Biology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky St, Vladivostok, Primorsky krai, 690041, Russia
- Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
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- National Scientific Center of Marine Biology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky St, Vladivostok, Primorsky krai, 690041, Russia
- Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
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Rojo-Arreola L, Navarrete del Toro M, Cordova-Murueta J, García-Carreño F. Techniques for protein digestion research in Decapoda: A review. Trends Food Sci Technol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2019.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Leiva FP, Calosi P, Verberk WCEP. Scaling of thermal tolerance with body mass and genome size in ectotherms: a comparison between water- and air-breathers. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 374:20190035. [PMID: 31203753 PMCID: PMC6606457 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Global warming appears to favour smaller-bodied organisms, but whether larger species are also more vulnerable to thermal extremes, as suggested for past mass-extinction events, is still an open question. Here, we tested whether interspecific differences in thermal tolerance (heat and cold) of ectotherm organisms are linked to differences in their body mass and genome size (as a proxy for cell size). Since the vulnerability of larger, aquatic taxa to warming has been attributed to the oxygen limitation hypothesis, we also assessed how body mass and genome size modulate thermal tolerance in species with contrasting breathing modes, habitats and life stages. A database with the upper (CTmax) and lower (CTmin) critical thermal limits and their methodological aspects was assembled comprising more than 500 species of ectotherms. Our results demonstrate that thermal tolerance in ectotherms is dependent on body mass and genome size and these relationships became especially evident in prolonged experimental trials where energy efficiency gains importance. During long-term trials, CTmax was impaired in larger-bodied water-breathers, consistent with a role for oxygen limitation. Variation in CTmin was mostly explained by the combined effects of body mass and genome size and it was enhanced in larger-celled, air-breathing species during long-term trials, consistent with a role for depolarization of cell membranes. Our results also highlight the importance of accounting for phylogeny and exposure duration. Especially when considering long-term trials, the observed effects on thermal limits are more in line with the warming-induced reduction in body mass observed during long-term rearing experiments. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Physiological diversity, biodiversity patterns and global climate change: testing key hypotheses involving temperature and oxygen’.
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- Félix P Leiva
- 1 Department of Animal Ecology and Physiology, Radboud University Nijmegen , 6500 Nijmegen , The Netherlands
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- 2 Département de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski , 300 Allée des Ursulines, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada G5L 3A1
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- 1 Department of Animal Ecology and Physiology, Radboud University Nijmegen , 6500 Nijmegen , The Netherlands
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Armstrong EJ, Stillman JH. Construction and Characterization of Two Novel Transcriptome Assemblies in the Congeneric Porcelain Crabs Petrolisthes cinctipes and P. manimaculis. Integr Comp Biol 2016; 56:1092-1102. [PMID: 27375271 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icw043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Crustaceans have commonly been used as non-model systems in basic biological research, especially physiological regulation. With the recent and rapid adoption of functional genomic tools, crustaceans are increasingly becoming model systems for ecological investigations of development and evolution and for mechanistic examinations of genotype-phenotype interactions and molecular pathways of response to environmental stressors. Comparative transcriptomic approaches, however, remain constrained by a lack of sequence data in closely related crustacean taxa. We identify challenges in the use of functional genomics tools in comparative analysis among decapod crustacean in light of recent advances. We present RNA-seq data from two congeneric species of porcelain crabs (Petrolisthes cinctipes and P. manimaculis) used to construct two de novo transcriptome assemblies with ∼194K and ∼278K contigs, respectively. We characterize and contrast these assemblies and compare them to a previously generated EST sequence library for P. cinctipes We also discuss the potential use of these data as a case-study system in the broader context of crustacean comparative transcriptomics.
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- Eric J Armstrong
- *Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3040 Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA .,Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, 3152 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA
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- *Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3040 Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, 3152 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA
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Williams CM, Buckley LB, Sheldon KS, Vickers M, Pörtner HO, Dowd WW, Gunderson AR, Marshall KE, Stillman JH. Biological Impacts of Thermal Extremes: Mechanisms and Costs of Functional Responses Matter. Integr Comp Biol 2016; 56:73-84. [PMID: 27252194 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icw013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Thermal performance curves enable physiological constraints to be incorporated in predictions of biological responses to shifts in mean temperature. But do thermal performance curves adequately capture the biological impacts of thermal extremes? Organisms incur physiological damage during exposure to extremes, and also mount active compensatory responses leading to acclimatization, both of which alter thermal performance curves and determine the impact that current and future extremes have on organismal performance and fitness. Thus, these sub-lethal responses to extreme temperatures potentially shape evolution of thermal performance curves. We applied a quantitative genetic model and found that beneficial acclimatization and cumulative damage alter the extent to which thermal performance curves evolve in response to thermal extremes. The impacts of extremes on the evolution of thermal performance curves are reduced if extremes cause substantial mortality or otherwise reduce fitness differences among individuals. Further empirical research will be required to understand how responses to extremes aggregate through time and vary across life stages and processes. Such research will enable incorporating passive and active responses to sub-lethal stress when predicting the impacts of thermal extremes.
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- Station d'Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale, Moulis, 09200, UMR 5321, CNRS 2 route du CNRS, France
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- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Marine and Polar Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA 90045
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- *University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720 San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, USA 94132
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Lockwood BL, Connor KM, Gracey AY. The environmentally tuned transcriptomes of Mytilus mussels. J Exp Biol 2015; 218:1822-33. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.118190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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ABSTRACT
Transcriptomics is a powerful tool for elucidating the molecular mechanisms that underlie the ability of organisms to survive and thrive in dynamic and changing environments. Here, we review the major contributions in this field, and we focus on studies of mussels in the genus Mytilus, which are well-established models for the study of ecological physiology in fluctuating environments. Our review is organized into four main sections. First, we illustrate how the abiotic forces of the intertidal environment drive the rhythmic coupling of gene expression to diel and tidal cycles in Mytilus californianus. Second, we discuss the challenges and pitfalls of conducting transcriptomic studies in field-acclimatized animals. Third, we examine the link between transcriptomic responses to environmental stress and biogeographic distributions in blue mussels, Mytilus trossulus and Mytilus galloprovincialis. Fourth, we present a comparison of transcriptomic datasets and identify 175 genes that share common responses to heat stress across Mytilus species. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that transcriptomics can provide an informative snapshot of the physiological state of an organism within an environmental context. In a comparative framework, transcriptomics can reveal how natural selection has shaped patterns of transcriptional regulation that may ultimately influence biogeography.
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- Brent L. Lockwood
- Department of Biology, University of Vermont, 120 Marsh Life Science, 109 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Marine Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Marine Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Wallace GT, Kim TL, Neufeld CJ. Interpopulational variation in the cold tolerance of a broadly distributed marine copepod. CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 2:cou041. [PMID: 27293662 PMCID: PMC4732475 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cou041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2014] [Revised: 08/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/19/2014] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Latitudinal trends in cold tolerance have been observed in many terrestrial ectotherms, but few studies have investigated interpopulational variation in the cold physiology of marine invertebrates. Here, the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus was used as a model system to study how local adaptation influences the cold tolerance of a broadly distributed marine crustacean. Among five populations spanning 18° in latitude, the following three metrics were used to compare cold tolerance: the temperature of chill-coma onset, the chill-coma recovery time and post-freezing recovery. In comparison to copepods from warmer southern latitudes, animals from northern populations exhibited lower chill-coma onset temperatures, shorter chill-coma recovery times and faster post-freezing recovery rates. Importantly, all three metrics showed a consistent latitudinal trend, suggesting that any single metric could be used equivalently in future studies investigating latitudinal variation in cold tolerance. Our results agree with previous studies showing that populations within a single species can display strong local adaptation to spatially varying climatic conditions. Thus, accounting for local adaptation in bioclimate models will be useful for understanding how broadly distributed species like T. californicus will respond to anthropogenic climate change.
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- Gemma T. Wallace
- Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
- Biology Department, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA
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- Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
- Quest University Canada, Squamish, BC, Canada VB8 0N8
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Wang W, Hui JHL, Chan TF, Chu KH. De novo transcriptome sequencing of the snail Echinolittorina malaccana: identification of genes responsive to thermal stress and development of genetic markers for population studies. MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2014; 16:547-559. [PMID: 24825364 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-014-9573-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Echinolittorina snails inhabit the upper intertidal rocky shore and face strong selection pressures from thermal extremes and fluctuations. Revealing the molecular processes of adaptive significance is greatly obstructed by the scarcity of genomic resource for these taxa. Here, we reported the first comprehensive transcriptome dataset for the genus Echinolittorina. Using Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform, about 52 M and 54 M paired-end clean reads were, respectively, generated for the control and heat-stressed libraries. Totally, 115,211 unique transcript fragments (unigenes) were assembled, with an average length of 453 bp and a N50 size of 492 bp. Approximately one third of the unigenes could be annotated according to their homology matches against the Nr, Swiss-Prot, COG, or KEGG databases, and they were found to represent 23,098 non-redundant genes. Gene expression comparison revealed that 1,267 and 6,663 annotated genes were, respectively, up- and downregulated with at least twofold changes upon heat stress. Gene Ontology and KEGG pathway analyses indicated that there were overrepresented amount of genes enriched in a broad spectrum of biological processes and pathways, including those associated with cytoskeleton organization, developmental regulation, signaling transduction, infection, and cardiac function. In addition, a transcriptome-wide search for polymorphic loci yielded a total of 11,228 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) from 9,938 unigenes and 138,631 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and insertion/deletion (INDEL) sites among 22,770 unigenes. The large number of transcript sequences acquired, the biological pathways identified, and the candidate microsatellite and SNP/INDEL loci discovered in the study will serve as valuable resources for further investigations of genetic differentiation and thermal adaptation among populations.
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- Wei Wang
- School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong,
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Tepolt CK, Somero GN. Master of all trades: thermal acclimation and adaptation of cardiac function in a broadly distributed marine invasive species, the European green crab, Carcinus maenas. J Exp Biol 2014; 217:1129-38. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.093849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
As global warming accelerates, there is increasing concern about how ecosystems may change as a result of species loss and replacement. Here, we examined the thermal physiology of the European green crab (Carcinus maenas Linnaeus 1758), a globally invasive species, along three parallel thermal gradients in its native and invasive ranges. At each site, we assessed cardiac physiology to determine heat and cold tolerance and acclimatory plasticity. We found that, overall, the species is highly tolerant of both heat and cold, and that it survives higher temperatures than co-occurring native marine crustaceans. Further, we found that both heat and cold tolerance are plastic in response to short-term acclimation (18–31 days at either 5 or 25°C). Comparing patterns within ranges, we found latitudinal gradients in thermal tolerance in the native European range and in the invasive range in eastern North America. This pattern is strongest in the native range, and likely evolved there. Because of a complicated invasion history, the latitudinal pattern in the eastern North American invasive range may be due either to rapid adaptation post-invasion or to adaptive differences between the ancestral populations that founded the invasion. Overall, the broad thermal tolerance ranges of green crabs, which may facilitate invasion of novel habitats, derive from high inherent eurythermality and acclimatory plasticity and potentially adaptive differentiation among populations. The highly flexible physiology that results from these capacities may represent the hallmark of a successful invasive species, and may provide a model for success in a changing world.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carolyn K. Tepolt
- Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
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- Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
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