Climate change
- Chemical composition of food induces plasticity in digestive morphology in larvae of Rana temporaria
Summary: Tadpoles of the common frog (Rana temporaria) exhibit phenotypic plasticity of the intestinal morphology but not of the oral apparatus when raised on diets of different chemical compositions.
- High levels of floridoside at high salinity link osmoadaptation with bleaching susceptibility in the cnidarian-algal endosymbiosis
Summary: Using the coral model Aiptasia, we show increased thermotolerance at high salinities, concomitant with a reduced reactive oxygen species (ROS) release by algal endosymbionts. This suggests a mechanistic link between osmoadaptation and thermotolerance, mediated by ROS-scavenging osmolytes.
- Acclimation temperature changes spermatozoa flagella length relative to head size in brown trout
Summary: Two different acclimation temperatures cause divergence in brown trout sperm morphometry through changes in the relative head surface area to flagellum length ratio.
- Independent and combined effects of daytime heat stress and night-time recovery determine thermal performance
Summary: Daytime and night-time temperatures that organisms experience in fluctuating environments can determine thermal performance and have implications for predicting the impacts of diel asymmetric warming under climate change.
- High salinity conveys thermotolerance in the coral model Aiptasia
Summary: High salinity can be a factor contributing to increased cnidarian thermal tolerance, as indicated by reduced algal endosymbiont loss and reduced photosynthetic impairment in the sea anemone Aiptasia. This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper as part of the supplementary information.
- Effects of temperature and UVR on organic matter fluxes and the metabolic activity of Acropora muricata
Summary: This study explores the individual and combined effects of temperature and UVR on the metabolism of Acropora muricata, and on the organic matter release and degradation by the associated bacteria.
- Proteomic responses to elevated ocean temperature in ovaries of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis
Summary: Shotgun proteomics study of the effect of chronic elevated water temperature identifying 62 differentially expressed ovarian proteins and a model for the proteomic response mediated by PTPN11 and CrkL.