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Structural and Evolutionary Relationships of Melanin Cascade Proteins in Cnidarian Innate Immunity. 蛛形纲固有免疫中黑色素级联蛋白的结构与进化关系
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae115
Emily W Van Buren, Ivan E Ponce, Kelsey M Beavers, Alexia Stokes, Mariah N Cornelio, Madison Emery, Laura D Mydlarz
{"title":"Structural and Evolutionary Relationships of Melanin Cascade Proteins in Cnidarian Innate Immunity.","authors":"Emily W Van Buren, Ivan E Ponce, Kelsey M Beavers, Alexia Stokes, Mariah N Cornelio, Madison Emery, Laura D Mydlarz","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae115","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Melanin is an essential product that plays an important role in innate immunity in a variety of organisms across the animal kingdom. Melanin synthesis is performed by many organisms using the tyrosine metabolism pathway, a general pathway that utilizes a type-three copper oxidase protein, called PO-candidates (phenoloxidase candidates). While melanin synthesis is well-characterized in organisms like arthropods and humans, it is not as well-understood in non-model organisms such as cnidarians. With the rising anthropomorphic climate change influence on marine ecosystems, cnidarians, specifically corals, are under an increased threat of bleaching and disease. Understanding innate immune pathways, such as melanin synthesis, is vital for gaining insights into how corals may be able to fight these threats. In this study, we use comparative bioinformatic approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of genes involved in tyrosine-mediated melanin synthesis in cnidarians. Eighteen PO-candidates representing five phyla were studied to identify their evolutionary relationship. Cnidarian species were most similar to chordates due to domain presents in the amino acid sequences. From there, functionally conserved domains in coral proteins were identified in a coral disease dataset. Five stony corals exposed to stony coral tissue loss disease were leveraged to identify 18 putative tyrosine metabolism genes, genes with functionally conserved domains to their Homo sapiens counterpart. To put this pathway in the context of coral health, putative genes were correlated to melanin concentration from tissues of stony coral species in the disease exposure dataset. In this study, tyrosinase was identified in stony corals as correlated to melanin concentrations and likely plays a key role in immunity as a resistance trait. In addition, stony coral genes were assigned to all modules within the tyrosine metabolism pathway, indicating an evolutionary conservation of this pathway across phyla. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the genes involved in tyrosine-mediated melanin synthesis in cnidarians.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1320-1337"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11579526/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141725127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Deuterostome Ancestors and Chordate Origins. 去骨动物的祖先和脊索动物的起源。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae134
Billie J Swalla
{"title":"Deuterostome Ancestors and Chordate Origins.","authors":"Billie J Swalla","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae134","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Deuterostomia are a monophyletic group, consisting of the Ambulacraria, with two phyla, Hemichordata and Echinodermata, and the phylum Chordata, containing the subphyla Cephalochordata (lancelets or Amphioxus), Tunicata (Urochordata), and Vertebrata. Hemichordates and echinoderms are sister groups and are critical for understanding the deuterostome ancestor and the origin and evolution of the chordates within the deuterostomes. Enteropneusta, worm-like hemichordates, share many chordate features as adults, including a post-anal tail, gill slits, and a central nervous system (CNS) that deploys similar developmental genetic regulatory networks (GRNs). Genomic comparisons show that cephalochordates share synteny and a vermiform body plan similar to vertebrates, but phylogenomic analyses place tunicates as the sister group of vertebrates. Tunicates have a U-shaped gut and a very different adult body plan than the rest of the chordates, and all tunicates have small genomes and many gene losses, although the GRNs underlying specific tissues, such as notochord and muscle, are conserved. Echinoderms and vertebrates have extensive fossil records, with fewer specimens found for tunicates and enteropneusts, or worm-like hemichordates. The data is mounting that the deuterostome ancestor was a complex benthic worm, with gill slits, a cartilaginous skeleton, and a CNS. Two extant groups, echinoderms and tunicates, have evolved highly derived body plans, remarkably different than the deuterostome ancestor. We review the current genomic and GRN data on the different groups of deuterostomes' characters to re-evaluate different hypotheses of chordate origins. Notochord loss in echinoderms and hemichordates is as parsimonious as notochord gain in the chordates but has implications for the deuterostome ancestor. The chordate ancestor lost an ancestral nerve net, retained the CNS, and evolved neural crest cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1175-1181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Big fish can't jump? Allometry of terrestrial jumping in cyprinodontiform fishes. 大鱼不会跳?鲤形目鱼类陆地跳跃的异体性。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae155
Michael Robert Minicozzi, Alexander Finden, Raquel Dias, Quentin Phillips, Carly Abelson, Alice Coulter Gibb
{"title":"Big fish can't jump? Allometry of terrestrial jumping in cyprinodontiform fishes.","authors":"Michael Robert Minicozzi, Alexander Finden, Raquel Dias, Quentin Phillips, Carly Abelson, Alice Coulter Gibb","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae155","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Teleost fishes that emerge onto land must produce effective terrestrial movements to return to the water. Using the Cyprinodontiformes as a model system, we examined a terrestrial behavior termed the tail-flip jump across a size range of individuals representing three species of aquatic killifishes (Gambusia affinis, Poecilia mexicana, and Jordanella floridae) and two species of amphibious killifishes (Kryptolebias marmoratus and Fundulus heteroclitus) to identify potential effects of size (mass) on jumping performance. The ballistic trajectory equation was used to partition the contributions of velocity (determined by acceleration and contact time) and takeoff angle to jump distance. Despite differences in size (over an order of magnitude) all fishes took off from the ground at ∼45°. However, in terms of total displacement, aquatic and amphibious killifish species scaled differently in their ability to perform the tail-flip jump. Aquatic killifishes decrease in total jump distance as mass increases; however, amphibious killifishes increase in total jump distance as mass increases. Aquatic killifishes cannot produce adequate accelerations at larger sizes, but amphibious killifishes produce similar accelerations despite over an order of magnitude size difference. Because of this, amphibious killifish species are able to maintain fast takeoff velocities at large body sizes. Distinct scaling patterns may be generated by differences in body shape. Aquatic killifishes have a fusiform body shape, with most of their body mass in the anterior of the body, while amphibious killifishes have a more uniform body shape that reduces their overall mass present in the anterior body. We hypothesize that reduced mass in the anterior body facilitates raising the head over the tail to prepare for takeoff. In contrast with amphibious species, the negative scaling relationship seen in body size vs. displacement in aquatic killifishes implies an upper size limit to producing the tail-flip jump for fish species that infrequently encounter the terrestrial environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142633155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Marine Debris Harbor Unique, yet Functionally Similar Cryptofauna Communities. 海洋废弃物蕴藏着独特但功能相似的隐翅虫群落。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae113
Tokea G Payton, Anna M Metzger, Michael J Childress
{"title":"Marine Debris Harbor Unique, yet Functionally Similar Cryptofauna Communities.","authors":"Tokea G Payton, Anna M Metzger, Michael J Childress","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae113","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human-made debris is entering the ocean at alarming rates. These artificial structures are becoming habitats for small marine taxa known as cryptofauna. Cryptofauna are among the most essential reef taxa; however, little is known about these organisms, let alone their fate considering degrading coral reefs and increasing anthropogenic disturbance. The current study explores differences in naturally occurring cryptofauna biodiversity compared to those inhabiting benthic marine debris. To explore this difference, we measured invertebrate diversity from autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) located on patch reefs along the middle Florida Keys reef tract. ARMS were used as a proxy for natural structure to compare to marine debris removed from five reef locations. Plastic debris was the most abundant of all the debris material collected. Wood and concrete were identified as covariates since they are sourced from wooden lobster traps. Taxa diversity varied significantly between ARMS and debris, indicating that each structural unit contained significantly different and diverse communities. The most influential taxa identified included commensal shrimps, hermit crabs, brittle stars, segmented worms, and several families of crabs. Additionally, while functional richness increased with taxa richness for ARMS communities, debris communities showed decreasing functional richness and high functional similarity, suggesting a specialization of debris-specific taxa. Overall, these data assist in better understanding of the marine community ecology surrounding anthropogenic marine debris for future debris removal and management practices for comprehensive reef health.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1102-1114"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141604571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hurricane Irma Linked to Coral Skeletal Density Shifts on the Florida Keys Reef Tract. 飓风艾尔玛与佛罗里达礁岛群珊瑚骨骼密度变化有关。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae128
Griffith Aliyah, Sanchez Gomez Jose, Castillo Karl
{"title":"Hurricane Irma Linked to Coral Skeletal Density Shifts on the Florida Keys Reef Tract.","authors":"Griffith Aliyah, Sanchez Gomez Jose, Castillo Karl","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae128","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coral reefs are at risk due to various global and local anthropogenic stressors that impact the health of reef ecosystems worldwide. The most recent climate models predict that climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of tropical storms. This increased storm occurrence and strength will likely compromise coral reef structures and habitats for reef-dwelling organisms, including across the Florida Keys Reef Tract (FKRT), the most extensive tropical reef system along the US coast. While several recent studies reveal the chronic impacts of tropical storms on corals, relatively little is known about the effects of major storm events on coral growth and how these effects vary over spatiotemporal scales. Here, I characterize the skeletal growth of two common Caribbean reef-building coral species, Siderastrea siderea and Pseudodiploria strigosa, before and after Hurricane Irma to investigate the storm's impact on coral skeletal growth on inner and outer reefs of the FKRT. Coral cores were extracted from both species at four inner and four outer reef sites in May 2015, before Hurricane Irma struck the Florida Keys in September 2017. Subsequently, 33 micro-cores were collected in May 2019, two years after the storm traversed our previously cored coral colonies. A three-way ANOVA model with storm, species, and reef location as the three factors was used to assess the impact of the storm on each of three growth parameters: skeletal density, linear extension, and calcification rates. Results reveal no difference in the coral annual skeletal growth parameters pre- and post-Hurricane Irma, although previously quantified differences in these growth parameters across species and location were observed. However, analysis of the \"yearly\" change in annual skeletal growth parameters showed significant differences in skeletal density across groups before and after Hurricane Irma, but not for linear extension and calcification rates. Our findings improve an understanding of the impacts of tropical storms on coral skeletal growth and offer new insights into how we can employ corals' innate growth capacities to help conserve coral reefs under climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1064-1077"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11518571/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Joy Factor: Redefining Leadership Excellence at Black in Marine Science through Joy-Centered Leadership Practices. 快乐因子:通过以快乐为中心的领导实践,重新定义布莱克海洋科学学院的卓越领导力。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae148
Lynnette Adams, Tiara Moore
{"title":"The Joy Factor: Redefining Leadership Excellence at Black in Marine Science through Joy-Centered Leadership Practices.","authors":"Lynnette Adams, Tiara Moore","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae148","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae148","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At Black in Marine Science (BIMS), the integration of joy-centered leadership principles has emerged as a transformative blueprint for empowering leaders and fostering inclusive environments. This article explores the integration of the Formula for Joy (F4J) model within BIMS, providing a comprehensive overview of its principles and practices. It presents the model as an adaptable leadership approach suitable for a diverse range of leaders and organizational contexts. The F4J model, uniquely designed for the challenges and opportunities within BIMS, specializes in leaders' personal joy and wellness. It encourages leaders to embark on a journey of self-discovery, embracing their true identities and finding fulfillment within their roles. By fostering an authentic exploration of self and nurturing continuous growth, leaders can cultivate meaningful connections within their teams, promoting collaboration and unity. Moreover, the F4J model highlights the significance of psychological safety and balanced well-being in creating environments where individuals feel valued and culturally supported. By championing an ethos of iterative joyfulness, leaders engage in ongoing self-reflection and improvement, enhancing their well-being while fostering resilience in navigating organizational challenges. This article underscores the practical benefits of joy-centered leadership within BIMS, offering a roadmap for leaders to infuse joy into their practices and drive positive change. By embracing the principles of F4J, leaders within and around BIMS can foster environments of empowerment where diversity is celebrated, and individuals thrive.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1162-1170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142114939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hypoxia Tolerance of Two Killifish Species. 两种鳉鱼的耐缺氧能力
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae144
Peyton A Thomas, Stephen T Kinsey
{"title":"Hypoxia Tolerance of Two Killifish Species.","authors":"Peyton A Thomas, Stephen T Kinsey","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae144","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae144","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hypoxia tolerance in aquatic ectotherms involves a suite of behavioral and physiological responses at the organismal, tissue, and cellular levels. The current study evaluated two closely related killifish species (Fundulus heteroclitus, Fundulus majalis) to evaluate responses to acute moderate and acute severe hypoxia. Routine metabolic rate and loss of equilibrium were assessed, followed by analysis in skeletal muscle of markers of oxidative damage to proteins (2,4-DNPH), lipids (4-HNE), and DNA (8-OHdG), hypoxia signaling (HIF1α, HIF2α), cellular energy state (p-AMPK: AMPK), and protein degradation (Ubiquitin, LC3B, Calpain 2, Hsp70). Both species had a similar reduction in metabolic rate at low PO2. However, F. heteroclitus was the more hypoxia-tolerant species based on a lower PO2 at which there was loss of equilibrium, perhaps due in part to a lower oxygen demand at all oxygen tensions. Despite the differences in hypoxia tolerance between the species, skeletal muscle molecular markers were largely insensitive to hypoxia, and there were few differences in responses between the species. Thus, the metabolic depression observed at the whole animal level appears to limit perturbations in skeletal muscle in both species during the hypoxia treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1115-1130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11518574/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Into the spongy-verse: structural differences between leaf and flower mesophyll. 进入海绵宇宙:叶和花中叶的结构差异。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae154
Jeroen D M Schreel, Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt, Pamela K Diggle, Craig Brodersen, Adam B Roddy
{"title":"Into the spongy-verse: structural differences between leaf and flower mesophyll.","authors":"Jeroen D M Schreel, Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt, Pamela K Diggle, Craig Brodersen, Adam B Roddy","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the site of almost all terrestrial carbon fixation, the mesophyll tissue is critical to leaf function. However, mesophyll tissue is not restricted only to leaves but also occurs in the laminar, heterotrophic organs of the floral perianth, providing a powerful test of how metabolic differences are linked to differences in tissue structure. Here, we compared mesophyll tissues of leaves and flower perianths of six species using high-resolution X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) imaging. Consistent with previous studies, stomata were nearly absent from flowers, and flowers had a significantly lower vein density compared to leaves. However, mesophyll porosity was significantly higher in flowers than in leaves, and higher mesophyll porosity was associated with more aspherical mesophyll cells. Despite these differences in cell and tissue structure between leaf and flower mesophyll, modeled intercellular airspace conductance did not differ significantly between organs, regardless of differences in stomatal density between organs. These results suggest that in addition to differences between leaves and flowers in vein and stomatal densities, the mesophyll cells and tissues inside these organs also exhibit marked differences that may allow for flowers to be relatively cheaper in terms of biomass investment per unit of flower surface area.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142523732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Combining Morphological Characteristics and DNA Barcoding Techniques Confirm Sea Urchins of the Genus Echinometra (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in Marine Habitat Located at Extreme Regions of the Caribbean Sea. 结合形态特征和 DNA 条形码技术,确认了加勒比海极端地区海洋栖息地的棘海胆属(棘皮动物门:Echinoidea)。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae083
Stanton G Belford
{"title":"Combining Morphological Characteristics and DNA Barcoding Techniques Confirm Sea Urchins of the Genus Echinometra (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in Marine Habitat Located at Extreme Regions of the Caribbean Sea.","authors":"Stanton G Belford","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae083","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Echinometra spp. are pantropical echinoids found in benthic marine habitat throughout the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Indo-West Pacific oceanic regions. Currently, morphology and molecular data are sparse for echinoids observed along the northeastern coast of Toco, Trinidad, where they are relatively common. Additionally, accurate species identity for Echinometra spp. remains dynamic at both northernmost and southernmost parts of the Caribbean Sea. Although distribution of sea urchins in the genus Echinometra have extensively been studied throughout the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific, information on its range of distribution at the edge of the Caribbean Sea is lacking. In this study, the mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase subunit I (mt COI) gene was amplified using polymerase chain reaction, then sequenced. Based on successfully obtained gene sequences for 581 base pairs, the echinoid species Echinometra lucunter and Echinometra viridis were identified for black and red color morphotypes from Trinidad (n = 23) and Key Largo, Florida (n = 6), respectively. Furthermore, these specimens were genetically identical to species identified in other studies for Puerto Rico, Panamá, Honduras, and Belize. Although morphological variations, such as spine and test color occur throughout Echinometra spp., molecular identification using the barcoding technique confirmed E. lucunter color morphs for the first time in Trinidad. Since the status of E. lucunter populations, specifically at the most northern and southern regions of the Caribbean Sea is dynamic, further studies using gene markers are essential in determining species distribution, in light of current trends in climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1078-1086"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141452226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Microplastic Leachate Negatively Affects Fertilization in the Coral Montipora capitata. 微塑料渗滤液会对珊瑚 Montipora capitata 的受精产生负面影响。
IF 2.2 3区 生物学
Integrative and Comparative Biology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae143
Keiko W Wilkins, Joanne Y Yew, Meredith Seeley, Robert H Richmond
{"title":"Microplastic Leachate Negatively Affects Fertilization in the Coral Montipora capitata.","authors":"Keiko W Wilkins, Joanne Y Yew, Meredith Seeley, Robert H Richmond","doi":"10.1093/icb/icae143","DOIUrl":"10.1093/icb/icae143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microplastic pollution is an emerging stressor of concern to coral reef ecosystems, which are already threatened by additional global and local level anthropogenic stressors. The effects of ingesting microplastics alone on corals have been well studied, but the effects of the chemical composition of these particles have been understudied. Many microplastic-associated chemicals are endocrine disrupters potentially posing a threat to organismal reproduction. Therefore, the goal of this study was to determine if differences exist between the effects of microplastics themselves and microplastic leachate on Montipora capitata fertilization due to changes in fatty acid quantity and composition. Assays were conducted two years in a row which exposed M. capitata gamete bundles to either one of four types of recently manufactured, virgin microspheres (nylon, polypropylene, high-density polyethylene, or low-density polyethylene) at three concentrations (50, 100, or 200 particles/L) or microplastic leachates, presumably including plastic additives from these microspheres. Gamete fertilization was not impacted by microplastic particles themselves, but some of the microplastic leachate treatments with the same polymer type significantly reduced fertilization rates for M. capitata. Additionally, a total of 17 fatty acids were seen in both years, but neither fatty acid quantity nor composition correlated with observed declines in fertilization. Instead, fertilization and fatty acid data independently varied by concentration and polymer type, likely due to the presence of different chemicals. This study is the first to directly test the toxicity of microplastic leachate to coral reproduction. These findings show that microplastic-associated chemicals are an important stressor affecting successful coral fertilization and fatty acid quantity and composition and provide evidence for the negative effects of microplastic leachate to coral reproduction. Thus, plastic additives could pose an additional threat to coral replenishment and persistence in coral reef ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":54971,"journal":{"name":"Integrative and Comparative Biology","volume":" ","pages":"1131-1140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11518575/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142057346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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