UV Sensitivities of Two Littoral and Two Deep-Freshwater Amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) Reflect Their Preferred Depths in the Ancient Lake Baikal.

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Hauptverfasser: Kondrateva, Elizaveta, Gurkov, Anton, Rzhechitskiy, Yaroslav, Saranchina, Alexandra, Diagileva, Anastasiia, Drozdova, Polina, Vereshchagina, Kseniya, Shatilina, Zhanna, Sokolova, Inna, Timofeyev, Maxim
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author Kondrateva, Elizaveta
Gurkov, Anton
Rzhechitskiy, Yaroslav
Saranchina, Alexandra
Diagileva, Anastasiia
Drozdova, Polina
Vereshchagina, Kseniya
Shatilina, Zhanna
Sokolova, Inna
Timofeyev, Maxim
author_facet Kondrateva, Elizaveta
Gurkov, Anton
Rzhechitskiy, Yaroslav
Saranchina, Alexandra
Diagileva, Anastasiia
Drozdova, Polina
Vereshchagina, Kseniya
Shatilina, Zhanna
Sokolova, Inna
Timofeyev, Maxim
Kondrateva, Elizaveta
Gurkov, Anton
Rzhechitskiy, Yaroslav
Saranchina, Alexandra
Diagileva, Anastasiia
Drozdova, Polina
Vereshchagina, Kseniya
Shatilina, Zhanna
Sokolova, Inna
Timofeyev, Maxim
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents UV Sensitivities of Two Littoral and Two Deep-Freshwater Amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) Reflect Their Preferred Depths in the Ancient Lake Baikal. Kondrateva, Elizaveta Gurkov, Anton Rzhechitskiy, Yaroslav Saranchina, Alexandra Diagileva, Anastasiia Drozdova, Polina Vereshchagina, Kseniya Shatilina, Zhanna Sokolova, Inna Timofeyev, Maxim Solar ultraviolet (UV) is among the most important ecological factors shaping the composition of biota on the planet's surface, including the upper layers of waterbodies. Inhabitants of dark environments recently evolving from surface organisms provide natural opportunities to study the evolutionary losses of UV adaptation mechanisms and better understand how those mechanisms function at the biochemical level. The ancient Lake Baikal is the only freshwater reservoir where deep-water fauna emerged, and its diverse endemic amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) now inhabit the whole range from highly transparent littoral to dark depths of over 1600 m, which makes them a convenient model to study UV adaptation. With 10-day-long laboratory exposures, we show that adults of deep-water Baikal amphipods and indeed have high sensitivity to environmentally relevant UV levels in contrast to littoral species and . The UV intolerance was more pronounced in deeper-dwelling and was partially explainable by lower levels of carotenoids and carotenoid-binding proteins. Signs of oxidative stress were not found but UV-B specifically seemingly led to the accumulation of toxic compounds. Overall, the obtained results demonstrate that UV is an important factor limiting the distribution of deep-water amphipods into the littoral zone of Lake Baikal.
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spellingShingle UV Sensitivities of Two Littoral and Two Deep-Freshwater Amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) Reflect Their Preferred Depths in the Ancient Lake Baikal.
Kondrateva, Elizaveta
Gurkov, Anton
Rzhechitskiy, Yaroslav
Saranchina, Alexandra
Diagileva, Anastasiia
Drozdova, Polina
Vereshchagina, Kseniya
Shatilina, Zhanna
Sokolova, Inna
Timofeyev, Maxim
UV Sensitivities of Two Littoral and Two Deep-Freshwater Amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) Reflect Their Preferred Depths in the Ancient Lake Baikal. Kondrateva, Elizaveta Gurkov, Anton Rzhechitskiy, Yaroslav Saranchina, Alexandra Diagileva, Anastasiia Drozdova, Polina Vereshchagina, Kseniya Shatilina, Zhanna Sokolova, Inna Timofeyev, Maxim Solar ultraviolet (UV) is among the most important ecological factors shaping the composition of biota on the planet's surface, including the upper layers of waterbodies. Inhabitants of dark environments recently evolving from surface organisms provide natural opportunities to study the evolutionary losses of UV adaptation mechanisms and better understand how those mechanisms function at the biochemical level. The ancient Lake Baikal is the only freshwater reservoir where deep-water fauna emerged, and its diverse endemic amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) now inhabit the whole range from highly transparent littoral to dark depths of over 1600 m, which makes them a convenient model to study UV adaptation. With 10-day-long laboratory exposures, we show that adults of deep-water Baikal amphipods and indeed have high sensitivity to environmentally relevant UV levels in contrast to littoral species and . The UV intolerance was more pronounced in deeper-dwelling and was partially explainable by lower levels of carotenoids and carotenoid-binding proteins. Signs of oxidative stress were not found but UV-B specifically seemingly led to the accumulation of toxic compounds. Overall, the obtained results demonstrate that UV is an important factor limiting the distribution of deep-water amphipods into the littoral zone of Lake Baikal.
title UV Sensitivities of Two Littoral and Two Deep-Freshwater Amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) Reflect Their Preferred Depths in the Ancient Lake Baikal.
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39765671/