Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1242/bio.061697
Hye Jin Hwang, Rachel T Cox
{"title":"Feeding a rich diet supplemented with the translation inhibitor cycloheximide decreases lifespan and ovary size in Drosophila.","authors":"Hye Jin Hwang, Rachel T Cox","doi":"10.1242/bio.061697","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.061697","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drosophila oogenesis has long been an important model for understanding myriad cellular processes controlling development, RNA biology and patterning. Flies are easily fed drugs to disrupt various molecular pathways. However, this is often done under poor nutrient conditions that adversely affect oogenesis, thus making analysis challenging. Cycloheximide is a widely used compound that binds to and stalls the ribosome, therefore reducing protein synthesis. As egg production is a highly nutrient-dependent process, we developed a method to feed female Drosophila a rich diet of yeast paste supplemented with cycloheximide to better determine the effect of cycloheximide treatment on oogenesis. We found that flies readily consumed cycloheximide-supplemented yeast paste. Males and females had reduced lifespans when maintained on cycloheximide, with males exhibiting a dose-dependent decrease. Although females did not exhibit decreased egg laying, their ovaries were smaller and the number of progeny reduced, indicating substandard egg quality. Finally, females fed cycloheximide had disrupted oogenesis, with smaller ovaries, missing ovariole stages, and an increase in apoptotic follicles. Together, these data support that reduced protein synthesis adversely affects oogenesis with a rich diet that provides optimal nutrient conditions. In addition, this method could be used more broadly to test the effect of other drugs on Drosophila oogenesis without the confounding effects caused by poor nutrition.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":"13 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11625892/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142715400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1242/bio.060428
Miika Niemeläinen, Anna-Mari Haapanen-Saaristo, Leena M Koskinen, Josef Gullmets, Emilia Peuhu, Annika Meinander, Sara Calhim, Ilkka Paatero
{"title":"Glutaraldehyde-enhanced autofluorescence as a general tool for 3D morphological imaging.","authors":"Miika Niemeläinen, Anna-Mari Haapanen-Saaristo, Leena M Koskinen, Josef Gullmets, Emilia Peuhu, Annika Meinander, Sara Calhim, Ilkka Paatero","doi":"10.1242/bio.060428","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.060428","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Routine histochemical techniques are capable of producing vast amount of information from diverse sample types, but these techniques are limited in their ability to generate 3D information. Autofluorescence imaging can be used to analyse samples in 3D but it suffers from weak/low signal intensities. Here, we describe a simple chemical treatment with glutaraldehyde to enhance autofluorescence for 3D fluorescence imaging and to generate detailed morphological images on whole-mount samples. This methodology is straightforward and cost-effective to implement, suitable for a wide range of organisms and sample types. Furthermore, it can be readily integrated with standard confocal and fluorescence microscopes for analysis. This approach has the potential to facilitate the analysis of biological 3D structures and research in developmental biology, including studies on model and non-model organisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11583915/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1242/bio.060609
Gupta Soyam, Nisha N Kannan
{"title":"Sexual dimorphism and the impact of aging on ball rolling-associated locomotor behavior in Drosophila.","authors":"Gupta Soyam, Nisha N Kannan","doi":"10.1242/bio.060609","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.060609","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Insects exhibit a remarkable ability to interact with inanimate objects to facilitate essential behaviors such as foraging, reproduction, shelter building, and defense. In this study, we assessed whether Drosophila interacted with inanimate objects when they were suspended on their wings and provided with a thermocol ball (foam ball). Drosophila indeed exhibited ball rolling behavior. We further examined the sexual dimorphism in this ball rolling-associated locomotor behavior. We carried out a ball rolling assay using 3-day-old male and female w1118 flies and measured the duration for which the flies could roll the ball without dropping it within a 10 min period. The ball was returned to the flies whenever they dropped it, and we calculated the number of times the ball was dropped within the 10 min duration. Females exhibited a longer ball holding duration than males. We also observed a decrease in ball holding duration and an increase in the number of times the ball was dropped by 15-day-old male and female flies than their younger counterparts. These results suggest sexual dimorphism and age-dependent alterations in Drosophila ball rolling-associated locomotor behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11583920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1242/bio.060417
Victoria M Coutts, Kevin Pham, Gabriella Gilbert, Haruka Wada
{"title":"Breeding zebra finches prioritize reproductive bout over self-maintenance under food restriction.","authors":"Victoria M Coutts, Kevin Pham, Gabriella Gilbert, Haruka Wada","doi":"10.1242/bio.060417","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.060417","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reproduction requires high amounts of energy, and challenging environments during breeding can force parents to prioritize their current reproductive bout over self-maintenance or vice versa. However, little is known about how common stressors, such as food restriction, can influence these trade-offs during breeding, and the physiological mechanisms for these trade-off decisions. In this study, adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis) were subjected to a control diet (ad libitum) or a 40% food restriction while raising nestlings and fledglings, and we measured body mass, furculum fat, plasma corticosterone (CORT) and blood glucose levels of the parents at the time of pairing, when their offspring fledged, and when their offspring reached nutritional independence. We also measured body mass and growth rate in the offspring from hatching until the end of the treatment period. Food-restricted parents had lower body mass when their offspring fledged and reached nutritional independence and higher baseline CORT when their offspring fledged compared to controls. Offspring did not differ in body mass or growth rate between treatment groups. However, there was no effect of food restriction on parents' furculum fat, baseline glucose, the adrenocortical response, or the glucose response. Furthermore, path analysis results suggest that alterations in baseline glucose is the primary driver of changes in body mass in parents and offspring brood mass. Taken together, these results suggest that food restriction during chick rearing in a short-lived passerine drives parents to prioritize their current reproductive bout over self-maintenance, and glucose could potentially be a mechanism for diverting energy toward parental effort.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11556311/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1242/bio.061770
Kasja Malkoc, Michaela Hau, Scott McWilliams, Edyta Teresa Sadowska, Maciej Dzialo, Barbara Pierce, Lisa Trost, Ulf Bauchinger, Eve Udino, Stefania Casagrande
{"title":"Commentary on Thoral et al. (2024) 'The relationship between mitochondrial respiration, resting metabolic rate and blood cell count in great tits'.","authors":"Kasja Malkoc, Michaela Hau, Scott McWilliams, Edyta Teresa Sadowska, Maciej Dzialo, Barbara Pierce, Lisa Trost, Ulf Bauchinger, Eve Udino, Stefania Casagrande","doi":"10.1242/bio.061770","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.061770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":"13 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11603116/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142675148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1242/bio.060533
Nandhakumar Govindasamy, Georg Rauter, Frank Seidel, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, Philipp E Hirsch, Joschka Wiegleb
{"title":"Does swimming at the bottom serve as a hydraulic advantage for benthic fish Neogobius melanostomus Pallas (1814) in flowing water?","authors":"Nandhakumar Govindasamy, Georg Rauter, Frank Seidel, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, Philipp E Hirsch, Joschka Wiegleb","doi":"10.1242/bio.060533","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.060533","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Benthic fish, such as the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus Pallas, 1814) tend to swim near the bottom, especially at increased water velocities. To test whether these fish have a hydraulic advantage from swimming near the bottom and how the substrate affects the forces experienced, we measured the hydraulic forces experienced by preserved fish in a flow channel. The fish were tested 5.0 mm above the bottom at smooth and rough surface, and in the water column (10.0 cm elevation) above smooth and rough surface at 0.95 m/s water velocity. No significant effect among the mean hydraulic forces was observed between both fish positions, whereas the mean hydraulic forces in the water column were significantly higher (P<0.05) above the rough surface (mean 0.077 N±0.025 s.d.) than above the smooth surface (mean 0.068 N±0.021 s.d.). A convolutional neural network (CNN) predicted the column smooth treatment was the most characteristic force data time series (mean F1=0.88±0.03 s.d.). We conclude that the body posture and body movements of the fish are more relevant for the hydraulic forces experienced by the fish than the vertical position in the water column. Further factors explaining the affinity to swimming near the bottom are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":"13 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11575849/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142543791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1242/bio.060370
Andrés F Díaz-Salazar, Felipe Garzón-Agudelo, Ashley Smiley, Carlos Daniel Cadena, Alejandro Rico-Guevara
{"title":"Winging it: hummingbirds alter flying kinematics during molt.","authors":"Andrés F Díaz-Salazar, Felipe Garzón-Agudelo, Ashley Smiley, Carlos Daniel Cadena, Alejandro Rico-Guevara","doi":"10.1242/bio.060370","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.060370","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hummingbirds are well known for their hovering flight, one of the most energetically expensive modes of locomotion among animals. Molt is a costly event in the annual cycle, in which birds replace their feathers, including all their primary feathers, which, in hummingbirds, comprise most of the area of the wing. Despite this, the effects of molt on hovering flight are not well known. Here, we examined high-speed videos (14 individuals of three species from the Colombian Andes recorded at 1200 frames per second) comparing molting and non-molting hummingbirds' wing kinematics and wingtip trajectories. We found that molting hummingbirds rotated their wings in more acute angles during both downstroke and upstroke compared to non-molting individuals (10° versus 20°, and 15° versus 29°, respectively), while other flight parameters remained unchanged. Our findings show that hummingbirds are capable of sustaining hovering flight and thereby maintaining their weight support even under impressive wing area reductions by adjusting their stroke amplitudes.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11583918/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141999417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1242/bio.060421
Alexandra R Noble, Markus Masek, Claudia Hofmann, Arianna Cuoco, Tamara D S Rusterholz, Hayriye Özkoc, Nadja R Greter, Ian G Phelps, Nikita Vladimirov, Sepp Kollmorgen, Esther Stoeckli, Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu
{"title":"Shared and unique consequences of Joubert Syndrome gene dysfunction on the zebrafish central nervous system.","authors":"Alexandra R Noble, Markus Masek, Claudia Hofmann, Arianna Cuoco, Tamara D S Rusterholz, Hayriye Özkoc, Nadja R Greter, Ian G Phelps, Nikita Vladimirov, Sepp Kollmorgen, Esther Stoeckli, Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu","doi":"10.1242/bio.060421","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.060421","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Joubert Syndrome (JBTS) is a neurodevelopmental ciliopathy defined by a highly specific midbrain-hindbrain malformation, variably associated with additional neurological features. JBTS displays prominent genetic heterogeneity with >40 causative genes that encode proteins localising to the primary cilium, a sensory organelle that is essential for transduction of signalling pathways during neurodevelopment, among other vital functions. JBTS proteins localise to distinct ciliary subcompartments, suggesting diverse functions in cilium biology. Currently, there is no unifying pathomechanism to explain how dysfunction of such diverse primary cilia-related proteins results in such a highly specific brain abnormality. To identify the shared consequence of JBTS gene dysfunction, we carried out transcriptomic analysis using zebrafish mutants for the JBTS-causative genes cc2d2aw38, cep290fh297, inpp5ezh506, talpid3i264 and togaram1zh510 and the Bardet-Biedl syndrome-causative gene bbs1k742. We identified no commonly dysregulated signalling pathways in these mutants and yet all mutants displayed an enrichment of altered gene sets related to central nervous system function. We found that JBTS mutants have altered primary cilia throughout the brain but do not display abnormal brain morphology. Nonetheless, behavioural analyses revealed reduced locomotion and loss of postural control which, together with the transcriptomic results, hint at underlying abnormalities in neuronal activity and/or neuronal circuit function. These zebrafish models therefore offer the unique opportunity to study the role of primary cilia in neuronal function beyond early patterning, proliferation and differentiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11583916/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-11-15Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1242/bio.061771
Elisa Thoral, Carmen C García-Díaz, Elin Persson, Imen Chamkha, Eskil Elmér, Suvi Ruuskanen, Andreas Nord
{"title":"Response to 'Commentary on Thoral et al. (2024) The relationship between mitochondrial respiration, resting metabolic rate and blood cell count in great tits'.","authors":"Elisa Thoral, Carmen C García-Díaz, Elin Persson, Imen Chamkha, Eskil Elmér, Suvi Ruuskanen, Andreas Nord","doi":"10.1242/bio.061771","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.061771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":"13 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11603115/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142675149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biology OpenPub Date : 2024-10-15Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1242/bio.061685
Oksana Malanchuk, Antonina Khoruzhenko, Viktoriia Kosach, Anna Bdzhola, Dariy Bidiuk, Charlie Brett, Ivan Gout, Valeriy Filonenko
{"title":"Immunofluorescent detection of protein CoAlation in mammalian cells under oxidative stress.","authors":"Oksana Malanchuk, Antonina Khoruzhenko, Viktoriia Kosach, Anna Bdzhola, Dariy Bidiuk, Charlie Brett, Ivan Gout, Valeriy Filonenko","doi":"10.1242/bio.061685","DOIUrl":"10.1242/bio.061685","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previously, we reported the generation and characterisation of highly specific anti-CoA monoclonal antibodies capable of recognizing CoA in various immunological assays. Utilizing these antibodies in conjunction with mass spectrometry, we identified a wide array of cellular proteins modified by CoA in bacteria and mammalian cells. Furthermore, our findings demonstrated that such modifications could be induced by oxidative or metabolic stress. This study advances the utility of anti-CoA monoclonal antibodies in analysing protein CoAlation, highlighting their effectiveness in immunofluorescent assay. Our data corroborates a significant increase in cellular protein CoAlation induced by oxidative agents. Additionally, we observed that hydrogen-peroxide induced protein CoAlation is predominantly associated with mitochondrial proteins.</p>","PeriodicalId":9216,"journal":{"name":"Biology Open","volume":"13 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11463958/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142341954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}