Julianna J Renzi, Joseph P Morton, Jessica L Bergman, Devin Rowell, Edwin S Iversen, Leo C Gaskins, Juliana Hoehne-Diana, Brian R Silliman
{"title":"An abundant mutualist can protect corals from multiple stressors.","authors":"Julianna J Renzi, Joseph P Morton, Jessica L Bergman, Devin Rowell, Edwin S Iversen, Leo C Gaskins, Juliana Hoehne-Diana, Brian R Silliman","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2936","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mutualisms can increase the ability of foundation species to resist individual stressors, but it remains unclear whether mutualisms can also ameliorate co-occurring stressors for habitat-forming species. To examine whether a suspected mutualist could improve foundation species' resistance to multiple stressors, we tested how a common coral-dwelling crab affected corals exposed to macroalgal contact and physical wounding during a widespread heat stress event using flow-through tanks supplied with seawater from a nearby reef flat. High temperatures on the reef flat, which raised the temperature in our tanks, appeared to trigger rapid tissue loss in experimental corals, but the amount of tissue lost by corals was strongly determined by treatment. Macroalgal contact increased, while the presence of a crab decreased, the amount of tissue lost. Although the effect of wounding was not strong in isolation, when wounding occurred in the presence of a crab, coral tissue loss unexpectedly decreased below that of all other treatments. We propose that wounding increased coral resistance to stress by attracting crabs-a result that appeared supported in a field experiment. These results highlight that mutualisms can interact with stressors in unexpected ways, buffering the effects of both local and global stressors on foundation species.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242936"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11813579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How will we prepare for an uncertain future? The value of open data and code for unborn generations facing climate change.","authors":"Dylan G E Gomes","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1515","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1515","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify, humans face new challenges to long-term survival. Humans will likely be battling these problems long after 2100, when many climate projections currently end. A more forward-thinking view on our science and its direction may help better prepare for the future of our species. Researchers may consider datasets the basic units of knowledge, whose preservation is arguably more important than the articles that are written about them. Storing data and code in long-term repositories offers insurance against our uncertain future. To ensure open data are useful, data must be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) and be complete with all appropriate metadata. By embracing open science practices, contemporary scientists give the future of humanity the information to make better decisions, save time and other valuable resources, and increase global equity as access to information is made free. This, in turn, could enable and inspire a diversity of solutions, to the benefit of many. Imagine the collective science conducted, the models built, and the questions answered if all of the data researchers have collectively gathered were organized and immediately accessible and usable by everyone. Investing in open science today may ensure a brighter future for unborn generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20241515"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11813590/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective bodily responses in monkeys predict subsequent pessimism, but not vice versa.","authors":"Sakumi Iki, Ikuma Adachi","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2549","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2549","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Affect is a complex interplay of behaviour, physiology, cognition and subjective feelings. The James-Lange theory, which posits that affective bodily responses occur first and subsequently shape our affective experiences, has been extensively studied in humans but remains underexplored in non-human animals. This study employs a judgement bias test to explore the relationship between peripheral bodily responses, specifically self-scratching associated with negative affect, and shifts in cognitive information-processing modes (i.e. a 'pessimistic' judgement bias characterized by heightened anticipation of undesirable outcomes) in Japanese macaques (<i>Macaca fuscata</i>). Our findings support the hypothesis that bodily responses precede and influence changes in cognitive modes, demonstrating that self-scratching predicts subsequent pessimistic judgements, but not vice versa. This study provides comparative insights into the biological underpinnings of affect, highlighting that peripheral behaviours can shape cognitive processes in non-human primates. These results have broader implications for understanding the evolutionary continuity and adaptive significance of affective response systems across species.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242549"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793958/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongyin Zhang, Takuya Yahagi, Norio Miyamoto, Chong Chen, Qingqiu Jiang, Pei-Yuan Qian, Jin Sun
{"title":"Circatidal control of gene expression in the deep-sea hot vent shrimp <i>Rimicaris leurokolos</i>.","authors":"Hongyin Zhang, Takuya Yahagi, Norio Miyamoto, Chong Chen, Qingqiu Jiang, Pei-Yuan Qian, Jin Sun","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2970","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biological clocks are a ubiquitous feature of all life, enabling the use of natural environmental cycles to track time. Although studies on circadian rhythms have contributed greatly to the knowledge of chronobiology, biological rhythms in dark biospheres such as the deep sea remain poorly understood. Here, based on a free-running experiment in the laboratory, we reveal potentially endogenous rhythms in the gene expression of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp <i>Rimicaris leurokolos</i>. Oscillations with approximately 12 h periods, probably reflecting tidal influence, greatly prevail over others in the temporal transcriptome, indicating <i>R. leurokolos</i> probably depends on a circatidal clock consisting of at least some components independent from the circadian clocks. The tidal transcripts exhibit an antiphased expression pattern divided into two internally synchronized clusters, correlated with wide-ranging biological processes that occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm, respectively. In addition, the tidal transcripts showed great similarities with genes in fruit flies and mice exhibiting approximately 12 h ultradian rhythms, indicating that the tide probably had a broad impact on the evolution of approximately 12 h oscillations found across the Metazoa. These findings not only provide new insights into the temporal adaptations in deep-sea organisms but also highlight hydrothermal vent organisms as intriguing models for chronobiological studies, particularly those linked to approximately 12 h ultradian rhythms.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242970"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793976/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F R Schenck, J K Baum, K E Boyer, J E Duffy, F J Fodrie, J Gaeckle, T C Hanley, C M Hereu, K A Hovel, P Jorgensen, D L Martin, N E O'Connor, B J Peterson, J J Stachowicz, A R Hughes
{"title":"Host traits and temperature predict biogeographical variation in seagrass disease prevalence.","authors":"F R Schenck, J K Baum, K E Boyer, J E Duffy, F J Fodrie, J Gaeckle, T C Hanley, C M Hereu, K A Hovel, P Jorgensen, D L Martin, N E O'Connor, B J Peterson, J J Stachowicz, A R Hughes","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3055","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diseases are ubiquitous in natural systems, with broad effects across populations, communities and ecosystems. However, the drivers of many diseases remain poorly understood, particularly in marine environments, inhibiting effective conservation and management measures. We examined biogeographical patterns of infection in the foundational seagrass <i>Zostera marina</i> by the parasitic protist <i>Labyrinthula zosterae</i>, the causative agent of seagrass wasting disease, across >20° of latitude in two ocean basins. We then identified and characterized relationships among wasting disease prevalence and a suite of host traits and environmental variables. Host characteristics and transmission dynamics explained most of the variance in prevalence across our survey, yet the particular host traits underlying these relationships varied between oceans, with host size and nitrogen content important in the Pacific and host size and density most important in the Atlantic. Temperature was also a key predictor of prevalence, particularly in the Pacific Ocean. The strength and shape of the relationships between prevalence and some predictors differed in our large-scale survey versus previous experimental and site-specific work. These results show that both host characteristics and environment influence host-parasite interactions, and that some such effects scale up predictably, whereas others appear to depend on regional or local context.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20243055"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11813588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David C Elzinga, Ryan Kulwicki, Samuel Iselin, Lee Spence, Alex Capaldi
{"title":"Rapid evolution of prehistoric dogs from wolves by natural and sexual selection emerges from an agent-based model.","authors":"David C Elzinga, Ryan Kulwicki, Samuel Iselin, Lee Spence, Alex Capaldi","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2646","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2646","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wolves are among the earliest animals to be domesticated. However, the mechanism by which ancient wolves were domesticated into modern dogs is unknown. Most of the prevailing domestication hypotheses posit that humans selectively bred wolves that were more docile. However, a competing hypothesis states that wolves that were less hostile towards humans would essentially domesticate themselves by naturally selecting for tamer wolves since that would allow for easier access to food from human settlements. A major critique of the latter hypothesis is whether evolution by this natural selective pathway could have occurred in a sufficiently short time span. Simulating the process would help demonstrate if such an objection is sufficient to dismiss this hypothesis. Thus, we constructed an agent-based model of the evolution of a single trait, a measure of human tolerance, in canines to test the merit of the time constraint objection. We tested scenarios both with and without mate preference to provide a potential sexual selective force. We used fecundity and mortality rates from the literature for validation. Hartigan's dip test of unimodality was used to measure if and when divergence of populations occurred. Our results indicate that the proto-domestication hypothesis cannot be rejected on the basis of time constraints.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242646"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11813586/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does literature evolve one funeral at a time?","authors":"Oleg Sobchuk, Bret Beheim","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2033","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cultural evolution of literary fiction is rarely studied, but rich literary data can help address some of the general problems of cultural change. In this article, we use a massive dataset of Anglophone fiction (over 23 000 books) and the tools of natural language processing to understand whether the long-term change of topics in books is driven by the individual change of authors or by the cohort turnover in author populations. To answer this question, we borrow a method from evolutionary ecology: decomposition analysis based on the Price equation. To prove the suitability of this method, we first apply it to simulated data and show that it does allow distinguishing between these two processes. Afterwards, we decompose the temporal trajectories of topics and measure the relative effects of the arrival of newcomer authors (entrances), the retirement of authors (exits) and the change of topic preferences during authors' lifetimes (individual change). We find that cohort turnover is a stronger force than individual change. Within the cohort effects, the effect of entrances is almost twice as strong as the effect of exits. Using simulated data, we discover that this difference stems from the unequal lengths of authors' careers.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242033"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793956/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143189452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exotic cuticular specializations in a Cambrian scalidophoran.","authors":"Giovanni Mussini, Nicholas J Butterfield","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2806","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2806","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scalidophora, the ecdysozoan group including priapulids, kinorhynchs and loriciferans, comprises some of the most abundant and ecologically important Cambrian animals. However, reconstructions of the morphology and lifestyles of fossil scalidophorans are often hampered by poor preservation of their submillimetre-scale cuticular specializations. Based on exceptionally preserved small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs), we describe a new scalidophoran-grade animal, <i>Scalidodendron crypticum</i> gen. et sp. nov., from the Early to Middle Cambrian Hess River Formation of northern Canada. The Hess River SCFs comprise pharyngeal teeth, coniform sclerites and hook-like sclerites, all closely comparable to known scalidophoran counterparts. The coniform and hook-like sclerites recurrently associate with arborescent cuticular projections that show multiple orders of branching, morphologically unlike those of any known living or fossil scalidophoran. The fine splintering and inferred post-pharyngeal position of these structures argue against locomotory, feeding and defensive roles with direct analogues in extant counterparts. As such, the arborescent structures of <i>Scalidodendron</i> denote a previously cryptic range of morphological variation in Cambrian scalidophorans, paralleling that of coeval panarthropods but expressed at a fundamentally different level of anatomical organization.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242806"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143189679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alfonso Diaz-Suarez, Veljo Kisand, Siim Kahar, Riho Gross, Anti Vasemägi, Kristina Noreikiene
{"title":"Parasite spillover rather than niche expansion explains infection of host brain by diplostomid eye flukes.","authors":"Alfonso Diaz-Suarez, Veljo Kisand, Siim Kahar, Riho Gross, Anti Vasemägi, Kristina Noreikiene","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2648","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2648","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parasites often occupy specific sites within their host, which has important implications for host performance and parasite transmission. Nonetheless, parasitic infections can occur beyond their typical location within a host, significantly altering host-parasite interactions. Yet, the causes behind the atypical tissue tropism are poorly understood. Here, we focus on a ubiquitous group of diplostomid parasites that form diverse communities in fish eyes. We used targeted DNA metabarcoding (cytochrome c oxydase subunit 1, COX1, 250 bp) to evaluate potential mechanisms underlying eye parasite atypical tissue tropism to the brain of two widespread fish species (Eurasian perch and common roach). We found that the most common eye-infecting species (<i>Tylodelphys clavata</i>, <i>Diplostomum baeri</i>) are present in the brains of perch but not in roach. The bipartite network comprising 5 species and 24 mitochondrial haplotypes revealed no brain-specific haplotypes, indicating an apparent lack of genetic divergence between brain- and eye-infecting parasites. Instead, the prevalence, intensity and diversity of eye infections were positively correlated with brain infections. Thus, our results suggest that the most parsimonious mechanism underlying brain infection is density-dependent spillover rather than parasite divergence-driven niche expansion. We anticipate that 'off-target' infections are likely to be severely underestimated in nature with important ecological, evolutionary and medical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242648"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793966/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143189696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benoît de Courson, Willem E Frankenhuis, Daniel Nettle
{"title":"Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France.","authors":"Benoît de Courson, Willem E Frankenhuis, Daniel Nettle","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2071","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2071","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In situations of poverty, do people take more or less risk? One hypothesis states that poverty makes people avoid risk, because they cannot buffer against losses, while another states that poverty makes people take risks, because they have little to lose. Each hypothesis has some previous empirical support. Here, we test the 'desperation threshold' model, which integrates both hypotheses. We assume that people attempt to stay above a critical level of resources, representing their 'basic needs'. Just above this threshold, people have much to lose and should avoid risk. Below, they have little to lose and should take risks. We conducted preregistered tests of the model using survey data from 472 adults in France and the UK. The predictor variables were subjective and objective measures of current resources. The outcome measure, risk taking, was measured using a series of hypothetical gambles. Risk taking followed a V-shape against subjective resources, first decreasing and then increasing again as resources reduced. This pattern was not observed for the objective resource measure. We also found that risk taking was more variable among people with fewer resources. Our findings synthesize the split literature on poverty and risk taking, with implications for policy and interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242071"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793957/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143189786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}