Trans-generational plasticity: Gene expression via Fluidigm chip system on pipefish Syngnathus typhle

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Autori principali: Roth, Olivia, Landis, Susanne H
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author Roth, Olivia
Landis, Susanne H
author_facet Roth, Olivia
Landis, Susanne H
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contents Trans-generational plasticity is the adjustment of phenotypes to changing habitat conditions that persist longer than the individual lifetime. Fitness benefits (adaptive TGP) are expected upon matching parent-offspring environments. In a global change scenario, several performance-related environmental factors are changing simultaneously. This lowers the predictability of offspring environmental conditions, potentially hampering the benefits of trans-generational plasticity. For the first time, we here explore how the combination of an abiotic and a biotic environmental factor in the parental generation plays out as trans-generational effect in the offspring. We fully reciprocally exposed the parental generation of the pipefish Syngnathus typhle to an immune challenge and elevated temperatures simulating a naturally occurring heatwave. Upon mating and male pregnancy, offspring were kept in ambient or elevated temperature regimes combined with a heat-killed bacterial epitope treatment. Differential gene expression (immune genes and DNA- and histone-modification genes) suggests that the combined change of an abiotic and a biotic factor in the parental generation had interactive effects on offspring performance, the temperature effect dominated over the immune challenge impact. The benefits of certain parental environmental conditions on offspring performance did not sum up when abiotic and biotic factors were changed simultaneously supporting that available resources are limited that can be allocated to phenotypic trans-generational effects. Temperature is the master regulator of trans-generational phenotypic plasticity, which potentially implies a conflict in the allocation of resources towards several environmental factors. This asks for a reassessment of trans-generational plasticity as a short-term option to buffer environmental variation in the light of climate change.
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spellingShingle Trans-generational plasticity: Gene expression via Fluidigm chip system on pipefish Syngnathus typhle
Roth, Olivia
Landis, Susanne H
Body length; Family; Identification; Replicate; Sample code/label; Species; Threshold cycle, quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Treatment
Trans-generational plasticity is the adjustment of phenotypes to changing habitat conditions that persist longer than the individual lifetime. Fitness benefits (adaptive TGP) are expected upon matching parent-offspring environments. In a global change scenario, several performance-related environmental factors are changing simultaneously. This lowers the predictability of offspring environmental conditions, potentially hampering the benefits of trans-generational plasticity. For the first time, we here explore how the combination of an abiotic and a biotic environmental factor in the parental generation plays out as trans-generational effect in the offspring. We fully reciprocally exposed the parental generation of the pipefish Syngnathus typhle to an immune challenge and elevated temperatures simulating a naturally occurring heatwave. Upon mating and male pregnancy, offspring were kept in ambient or elevated temperature regimes combined with a heat-killed bacterial epitope treatment. Differential gene expression (immune genes and DNA- and histone-modification genes) suggests that the combined change of an abiotic and a biotic factor in the parental generation had interactive effects on offspring performance, the temperature effect dominated over the immune challenge impact. The benefits of certain parental environmental conditions on offspring performance did not sum up when abiotic and biotic factors were changed simultaneously supporting that available resources are limited that can be allocated to phenotypic trans-generational effects. Temperature is the master regulator of trans-generational phenotypic plasticity, which potentially implies a conflict in the allocation of resources towards several environmental factors. This asks for a reassessment of trans-generational plasticity as a short-term option to buffer environmental variation in the light of climate change.
title Trans-generational plasticity: Gene expression via Fluidigm chip system on pipefish Syngnathus typhle
topic Body length; Family; Identification; Replicate; Sample code/label; Species; Threshold cycle, quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Treatment
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.872606