Cross-tolerance effects due to adult heat hardening, desiccation and starvation acclimation of tropical drosophilid- Zaprionus indianus
| Autor: | Bhawna Kalra, Ravi Parkash, Aditya Moktan Tamang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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030110 physiology
0106 biological sciences 0301 basic medicine Hot Temperature Physiology Acclimatization media_common.quotation_subject Insect Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Biochemistry 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Stress Physiological Botany medicine Animals Proline Molecular Biology Ecosystem media_common Starvation Pigmentation fungi Trehalose Cross-tolerance chemistry Hardening (metallurgy) Drosophila Seasons medicine.symptom Energy Metabolism Desiccation |
| Zdroj: | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 209:65-73 |
| ISSN: | 1095-6433 |
| Popis: | Some insect taxa from polar or temperate habitats have shown cross-tolerance for multiple stressors but tropical insect taxa have received less attention. Accordingly, we considered adult flies of a tropical drosophilid-Zaprionus indianus for testing direct as well as cross-tolerance effects of rapid heat hardening (HH), desiccation acclimation (DA) and starvation acclimation (SA) after rearing under warmer and drier season specific simulated conditions. We observed significant direct acclimation effects of HH, DA and SA; and four cases of cross-tolerance effects but no cross-tolerance between desiccation and starvation. Cross-tolerance due to heat hardening on desiccation showed 20% higher effect than its reciprocal effect. There is greater reduction of water loss in heat hardened flies (due to increase in amount of cuticular lipids) as compared with desiccation acclimated flies. However, cross-tolerance effect of SA on heat knockdown was two times higher than its reciprocal. Heat hardened and desiccation acclimated adult flies showed substantial increase in the level of trehalose and proline while body lipids increased due to heat hardening or starvation acclimation. However, maximum increase in energy metabolites was stressor specific i.e. trehalose due to DA; proline due to HH and total body lipids due to SA. Rapid changes in energy metabolites due to heat hardening seem compensatory for possible depletion of trehalose and proline due to desiccation stress; and body lipids due to starvation stress. Thus, observed cross-tolerance effects in Z. indianus represent physiological changes to cope with multiple stressors related to warmer and drier subtropical habitats. |
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