Heat tolerance in Drosophila subobscura along a latitudinal gradient: Contrasting patterns between plastic and genetic responses: PLASTIC AND GENETIC RESPONSES OF HEAT TOLERANCE
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Susceptibility to global warming relies on how thermal tolerances respond to increasing temperatures through plasticity or evolution. Climatic adaptation can be assessed by examining the geographic variation in thermal-related traits. We studied latitudinal patterns in heat tolerance in Drosophila subobscura reared at two temperatures. We used four static stressful temperatures to estimate the thermal death time (TDT) curves, and two ramping assays with fast and slow heating rates. Thermal death time curves allow estimation of the critical thermal maximum (CT(max)), by extrapolating to the temperature that would knock down the flies almost "instantaneously," and the thermal sensitivity to increasing stressful temperatures. We found a positive latitudinal cline for CT(max), but no clinal pattern for knockdown temperatures estimated from the ramping assays. Although high-latitude populations were more tolerant to an acute heat stress, they were also more sensitive to prolonged exposure to less stressful temperatures, supporting a trade-off between acute and chronic heat tolerances. Conversely, developmental plasticity did not affect CT(max) but increased the tolerance to chronic heat exposition. The patterns observed from the TDT curves help to understand why the relationship between heat tolerance and latitude depends on the methodology used and, therefore, these curves provide a more complete and reliable measurement of heat tolerance.
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The differences in activation energy between warm- and cold-reared flies reported by Castañeda et al. (2015) are similar in magnitude and direction to those found in this study.
“These differences in Ea are similar in magnitude and direction as those reported by Castañeda et al. (2015) for warm reared flies (Ea = 438.7 kJ mol -1 ) and cold reared flies (Ea = 387.0kJ mol -1 ).”
From It's about time: Linkages between heat tolerance, thermal acclimation and metabolic rate at different temporal scales in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus fossarum Koch, 1836 (2018) · cites this paper as Castañeda et al. (2015)
Castañeda et al. (2015) found similar differences with acclimation temperature in the heat tolerance landscapes of Drosophila subobscura.
“Castañeda et al. (2015) have found similar differences with acclimation temperature in the heat tolerance landscapes of Drosophila subobscura Collin, 1936.”
From It's about time: Linkages between heat tolerance, thermal acclimation and metabolic rate at different temporal scales in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus fossarum Koch, 1836 (2018) · cites this paper as Castañeda et al. (2015)
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“The thermal dependency of survival time, expressed as the activation energy Ea was calculated for both acclimation groups using the following equation (Castañeda et al., 2015):”
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- Authors
- Castañeda, L. E., Rezende, E. L., & Santos, M.
- Affiliations
- Austral University of Chile (CL)
- University of Roehampton (GB)
- Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Grup de Genòmica, Bioinformàtica i Biologia Evolutiva (GGBE); Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona; 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
- Venue
- Evolution
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2015-09-16
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2721-2734
- ISSN
- 0014-3820 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2124940247
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 62
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- 4.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Evolution (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- Generalitat de Catalunya (2014-SGR-1346)
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CGL2013-42432-P, CGL2013-42432)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (2012-5)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Keywords
- heat tolerance, Drosophila subobscura, latitudinal gradient, critical thermal maximum, thermal death time, developmental plasticity, thermal adaptation, global warming, clinal variation
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Animals, Chile, Climate, Drosophila, Female, Geography, Hot Temperature, Male, Phenotype
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