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Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs. 电离辐射对切尔诺贝利树蛙的年龄、端粒长度和皮质酮水平的影响微乎其微。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0287

Pablo Burraco, Caitlin Gabor, Amanda Bryant, Vanessa Gardette, Thierry Lengagne, Jean Marc Bonzom, Germán Orizaola

{"title":"Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs.","authors":"Pablo Burraco, Caitlin Gabor, Amanda Bryant, Vanessa Gardette, Thierry Lengagne, Jean Marc Bonzom, Germán Orizaola","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0287","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0287","url":null,"abstract":"The accident that occurred at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (Ukraine, 1986) contaminated a large extension of territory after the deposition of radioactive material. It is still under debate whether the chronic exposure to the radiation levels currently present in the area has long-term effects on organisms, such as decreases in longevity. Here, we investigate whether current levels of radiation in Chornobyl negatively impact the age of the Eastern tree frog Hyla orientalis. We also explore whether radiation induces changes in an ageing marker, telomere length or the stress hormone corticosterone. We found no effect of total individual absorbed radiation (including both external and internal exposure) on frog age (n = 197 individuals sampled in 3 consecutive years). We also did not find any relationship between individual absorbed radiation and telomere length, nor between individual absorbed radiation and corticosterone levels. Our results suggest that radiation levels currently experienced by Chornobyl tree frogs may not be high enough to cause severe chronic damage to semi-aquatic vertebrates such as this species. This is the first study addressing age and stress hormones in Chornobyl wildlife, and thus future research will confirm if these results can be extended to other taxa.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11537762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations. 渔业引起的生活史变化在实验捕捞的鱼类种群中得到恢复。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0319

Stephan N van Dijk, Daniel E Sadler, Phillip C Watts, Silva Uusi-Heikkilä

{"title":"Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations.","authors":"Stephan N van Dijk, Daniel E Sadler, Phillip C Watts, Silva Uusi-Heikkilä","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0319","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0319","url":null,"abstract":"Overfishing is one of the greatest threats to fish populations. Size-selective harvesting favours faster juvenile growth, younger maturation, small adult body size and low reproductive output. Such changes might be slow to recover and ultimately threaten population fitness and survival. To study the recovery potential of exploited experimental populations, we compared life-history traits in three differently size-selected experimental lines (large-selected, small-selected and random-selected) after five generations of harvesting and 10 subsequent generations of recovery (i.e. cessation of harvesting). We show that after a recovery period twice as long as the harvesting period, the differences in adult body size among the selection lines have eroded. While there was still a significant body size difference among the selection lines, this did not translate to differences in reproductive success. Although size-selective harvesting causes phenotypic changes in exploited fish populations, we show that such changes are reversible if the recovery period is long enough.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11539050/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal. 吸血蝙蝠会利用血食中的必需或非必需氨基酸迅速补充能量。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0453

Giulia S Rossi, Kenneth C Welch

{"title":"Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal.","authors":"Giulia S Rossi, Kenneth C Welch","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0453","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0453","url":null,"abstract":"In most mammals, running is fuelled by oxidization of endogenous carbohydrates and lipids while amino acids contribute little (< 5-10%). Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus), however, specialize on a unique, protein-rich blood diet. Therefore, we hypothesized that (i) vampire bats would rapidly begin utilizing dietary amino acids to support running metabolism, and (ii) that relative reliance on essential and non-essential amino acids would be similar. We fed bats cow's blood enriched either with isotopically labelled glycine (non-essential amino acid) or leucine (essential amino acid). Bats were exercised at speeds of 10, 20 and 30 m min-1 on a respirometry treadmill, allowing us to assess metabolic rate (i.e. O2 consumption and CO2 production) and track the oxidation of labelled amino acids in exhaled CO2. Vampire bats oxidized amino acids as their primary fuel as indicated by a respiratory exchange ratio (RER = ratio of CO2 production to O2 consumption rates) of approximately 0.8-0.9 at all speeds, with the labelled meal accounting for as much as 60% of oxidized fuels at peak usage. Similar oxidation rates indicated bats did not discriminate between essential and non-essential amino acid use. These findings reiterate how strongly metabolism can be shaped by a specialized diet.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11537760/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Do kea parrots infer the weight of objects from their movement in a breeze? 科亚鹦鹉能从微风中物体的移动推断物体的重量吗？

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0405

Elizabeth Temeroli, Sarah A Jelbert, Megan L Lambert

{"title":"Do kea parrots infer the weight of objects from their movement in a breeze?","authors":"Elizabeth Temeroli, Sarah A Jelbert, Megan L Lambert","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0405","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0405","url":null,"abstract":"Weight, though it cannot be seen directly, pervades nearly every aspect of an animal's life. However, the extent to which non-human animals reason about the property of weight remains poorly understood. Recent evidence highlights birds as a promising group for testing this ability: for example, New Caledonian crows can infer the weight of objects after observing their movements in a breeze. Here, we tested for similar weight inference abilities in kea (Nestor notabilis), a parrot species known for its sophisticated problem-solving skills. Subjects were trained to exchange objects of a target weight (light or heavy) for a food reward. They were then allowed to observe pairs of novel objects (one light and one heavy) hung in front of an electric fan in both an experimental condition (fan on, light object moving) and a control condition (fan off, both objects motionless). The birds were subsequently presented with test trials in which they could use the information from the demonstration to select an object of their target weight. We found that, unlike New Caledonian crows, kea did not perform significantly better on trials in which they observed the objects' movements and discussed our findings within the context of the kea's highly explorative nature.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11537761/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Neural mechanisms of mutualistic fish cleaning behaviour: a study in the wild. 互助鱼类清洁行为的神经机制：野外研究

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0339

Daniele Romeo, Sandra Ramirez-Calero, Timothy Ravasi, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Celia Schunter

{"title":"Neural mechanisms of mutualistic fish cleaning behaviour: a study in the wild.","authors":"Daniele Romeo, Sandra Ramirez-Calero, Timothy Ravasi, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Celia Schunter","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0339","url":null,"abstract":"One crucial interaction for the health of fish communities in coral reefs is performed by cleaner fish by removing ectoparasites from the body of other fish, so-called clients. Studying the underlying mechanisms of this behaviour is essential to understanding how species react to social stimuli and defining the drivers of mutualistic social behaviour. Here, we pinpoint the neural molecular mechanisms in the cleaning behaviour of Labroides dimidiatus in the wild through an in situ interaction experiment at a coral reef in New Caledonia. Five cleaners and clients (Abudefduf saxatilis) were placed into underwater aquaria to interact, while five were not presented with a client. The brain transcriptomes revealed 233 differentially expressed genes in cleaners that were interacting with a client. Among these genes, grin2d, npy, slc6a3 and immediate early genes (IEGs; fosb and fosl1) were related to learning and memory, glutamate and dopamine pathways, which confirm molecular pathways observed in laboratory studies. However, a new potential mechanism was found with npy (neuropeptide Y) as a driver of feeding behaviour. These results show the role of neurotransmitters and IEGs in mutualistic social behaviour, unveiling the mechanism behind the feeding stimulus that leads the cleaner fish to establish mutualistic interactions in coral reefs.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11479757/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142457343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Reproduction results in parallel changes of oxidative stress and immunocompetence in a wild long-living mammal-edible dormouse Glis glis. 野生长寿哺乳动物--食用睡鼠格里斯-格里斯（Glis glis）的繁殖会导致氧化应激和免疫能力的平行变化。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0257

Karolina Iwińska, Jan S Boratyński, Aneta Książek, Joanna Błońska, Zbigniew Borowski, Marek Konarzewski

{"title":"Reproduction results in parallel changes of oxidative stress and immunocompetence in a wild long-living mammal-edible dormouse Glis glis.","authors":"Karolina Iwińska, Jan S Boratyński, Aneta Książek, Joanna Błońska, Zbigniew Borowski, Marek Konarzewski","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0257","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0257","url":null,"abstract":"Oxidative stress (OS) and impaired immune function (IF) have been proposed as key physiological costs of reproduction. The relationship between OS and IF remains unresolved, particularly in long-living iteroparous species. We studied physiological markers of maintenance (OS, IF markers) in lactating, post-lactating and non-lactating females of edible dormice-a long-living rodent. We predicted the OS balance and IF to be compromised by lactation, especially in older females expected to face stronger trade-offs between life functions. We found that the age predictor (body size) correlated negatively with white blood cell level (WBC), positively with neutrophils to lymphocytes ratio and had no effect on OS markers. Oxidative damage markers (reactive oxygen metabolites (ROMs); but not antioxidant capacity) and body size-adjusted WBC were the lowest in lactating, higher in post-lactating and the highest in non-lactating females. Body size/age did not affect this correlation suggesting a similar age-independent allocation strategy during reproduction in this species. The path analysis testing the causal relationship between ROMs and WBC revealed that IF is more likely to affect OS than vice versa. Our study indicates the trade-off between crucial life functions during reproduction and suggests that immunosuppression reduces the risk of OS; therefore, mitigating oxidative costs of reproduction.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11521591/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142543474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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An ulvophycean marine green alga produces large parthenogenetic isogametes as predicted by the gamete dynamics model for the evolution of anisogamy. 根据配子动力学模型的预测，一种尺叶海洋绿藻会产生大型孤雌生殖同源异体。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0489

Tatsuya Togashi, Kazuei Nomura, Kosei Mochizuki, Geoff A Parker, Yusuke Horinouchi

{"title":"An ulvophycean marine green alga produces large parthenogenetic isogametes as predicted by the gamete dynamics model for the evolution of anisogamy.","authors":"Tatsuya Togashi, Kazuei Nomura, Kosei Mochizuki, Geoff A Parker, Yusuke Horinouchi","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0489","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0489","url":null,"abstract":"In eukaryotes, gamete size difference between the two sexes (anisogamy) evolved from gametes of equal size in both mating types (isogamy). The gamete dynamics (GD) model for anisogamy evolution combines gamete limitation and competition and predicts that if gametes of both mating types can develop parthenogenetically (i.e. without fusing with the opposite mating type), large isogamy can evolve under gamete-limited conditions. Ulvophycean marine green algae that have been claimed to exhibit various gametic systems from isogamy to anisogamy are important models for testing such theories. However, in most previous papers, whether a species is isogamous or anisogamous has not been examined statistically. Caution is necessary regarding claims of slight anisogamy because of gamete size variation. We reveal (i) that the gametic system of Struvea okamurae is large isogamy using a generalized linear mixed model, which accounted for the variation of gamete size among individual gametophytes, and (ii) that gametes of this alga can actually develop parthenogenetically, contrary to a previous report. Its habitat environments and protracted duration of gamete release suggest that this alga might experience gamete-limited conditions. Struvea okamurae seems to produce large parthenogenetic isogametes following GD model predictions, as an adaptation to deep waters.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11495676/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142387711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Optimally warm roost temperatures during lactation do not improve body condition in a long-lived bat. 哺乳期最佳的温暖栖息温度并不能改善长寿蝙蝠的身体状况。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0346

Janis M Wolf, Gerald Kerth

{"title":"Optimally warm roost temperatures during lactation do not improve body condition in a long-lived bat.","authors":"Janis M Wolf, Gerald Kerth","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0346","url":null,"abstract":"Lactation is the most energetically demanding time in the life of female mammals. To maximize lifetime reproductive success, females of long-lived species, such as bats, face a trade-off between investing in current and future reproduction. However, it is unclear whether global warming could influence this trade-off through shifts in the energy budget: warmer temperatures may reduce thermoregulatory costs, leaving mothers with more energy available for maternal care or for improving their own body condition (BC), which may increase survival and ensure future reproduction. Here, we investigated whether lactating Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii) allocate the energy saved in optimally warm roosts into their own BC. We analysed a 14-year dataset on the individual BC of 237 females marked with radio-frequency identification tags from four wild maternity colonies. In two of the colonies, the temperature in the roosts, in which the females raised their offspring, was artificially kept in the bats' thermoneutral zone to reduce their thermoregulation costs. We found that BC shortly after the lactation period did not differ between mothers from heated and non-heated colonies. Our results suggest that mothers do not invest the energy saved in warmer roosts in their own BC, consistent with an increased investment in maternal care.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11496951/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142494654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Unravelling a diversity of cellular structures and aggregation dynamics during the early development of Myxococcus xanthus. 揭示黄曲霉早期发育过程中细胞结构和聚集动力学的多样性。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0360

Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida, Alejandro V Arzola, Mariana Benítez

{"title":"Unravelling a diversity of cellular structures and aggregation dynamics during the early development of Myxococcus xanthus.","authors":"Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida, Alejandro V Arzola, Mariana Benítez","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0360","url":null,"abstract":"Aggregation underlies the collective dynamics of a diversity of organisms, enabling the formation of complex structures and emergent behaviours on interaction with the environment. Cellular aggregation constitutes one of the routes to collective motility and multicellular development. Myxococcus xanthus, a social bacterium, is a valuable model for studying the aggregative path to multicellularity, a major transition in the evolutionary history of life. While the collective developmental behaviour of M. xanthus has been largely studied in high cellular densities, there is a lack of understanding at low-density conditions that can be ecologically relevant. In this work, we study the early stages of emergent collective behaviour of M. xanthus under nutrient-poor and low-density conditions, uncovering the formation of diverse cellular structures with different shapes and sizes, ranging from individual cells to networks comprising thousands of cells. We study their motility patterns and their prevalence along development and discuss their cross-scale role on the population's exploratory dynamics. This work contributes to understanding key, yet largely understudied, aspects in the early stages of multicellular development in myxobacteria, shedding light on the dynamics underlying aggregative processes in this and other taxa and study systems.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11496945/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142494601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Sonic restoration: acoustic stimulation enhances plant growth-promoting fungi activity. 声波修复：声波刺激可增强植物生长促进真菌的活性。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295

Jake M Robinson, Amy Annells, Christian Cando-Dumancela, Martin F Breed

{"title":"Sonic restoration: acoustic stimulation enhances plant growth-promoting fungi activity.","authors":"Jake M Robinson, Amy Annells, Christian Cando-Dumancela, Martin F Breed","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295","url":null,"abstract":"Ecosystem restoration interventions often utilize visible elements to restore an ecosystem (e.g. replanting native plant communities and reintroducing lost species). However, using acoustic stimulation to help restore ecosystems and promote plant growth has received little attention. Our study aimed to assess the effect of acoustic stimulation on the growth rate and sporulation of the plant growth-promoting fungus Trichoderma harzianum Rifai, 1969. We played a monotone acoustic stimulus (80 dB sound pressure level (SPL) at a peak frequency of 8 kHz and a bandwidth at -10 dB from the peak of 6819 Hz-parameters determined via review and pilot research) over 5 days to T. harzianum to assess whether acoustic stimulation affected the growth rate and sporulation of this fungus (control samples received only ambient sound stimulation less than 30 dB). We show that the acoustic stimulation treatments resulted in increased fungal biomass and enhanced T. harzianum conidia (spore) activity compared to controls. These results indicate that acoustic stimulation influences plant growth-promoting fungal growth and potentially facilitates their functioning (e.g. stimulating sporulation). The mechanism responsible for this phenomenon may be fungal mechanoreceptor stimulation and/or potentially a piezoelectric effect; however, further research is required to confirm this hypothesis. Our novel study highlights the potential of acoustic stimulation to alter important fungal attributes, which could, with further development, be harnessed to aid ecosystem restoration and sustainable agriculture.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11444772/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142364297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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