The interspecific variations in molecular responses to various doses of heat and cold stress: The case of cereal aphids
The interspecific variations in molecular responses to various doses of heat and cold stress: The case of cereal aphids
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jinsphys.2023.104520
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发表时间:
2023-05-08
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2.2
通讯作者:
Colinet,Herve
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作者:
Li,Yuan-Jie;Ma,Chun-Sen;Colinet,Herve
Insects are currently subjected to unprecedented thermal stress due to recent increases in the frequency and amplitude of temperature extremes. Understanding molecular responses to thermal stress is critically important to appreciate how species react to thermal stress. Three co-occurring cosmopolitan species are found within the guild of cereal aphids:Sitobion avenae,Ropalosiphum padiandMetopolophium dirhodum.Earlier reports have shown that increasing frequency of temperature extremes causes a shift in dominant species within guilds of cereal aphids by differently altering the population’s growth. We hypothesize that a differential molecular response to stress among species may partially explain these changes. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are molecular chaperones well known to play an important role in protecting against the adverse effects of thermal stress. However, few studies on molecular chaperones have been conducted in cereal aphids. In this study, we compared the heat and cold tolerance between three aphid species by measuring the median lethal time (Lt50) and examined the expression profiles of sevenhspgenes after exposures to comparable thermal injury levels and also after same exposure durations. Results showed thatR. padisurvived comparatively better at high temperatures than the two other species but was more cold-sensitive.Hspgenes were induced more strongly by heat than cold stress.Hsp70Awas the most strongly up-regulated gene in response to both heat and cold stress.R. padihad more heat inducible genes and significantly higher mRNA levels ofhsp70A,hsp10,hsp60andhsp90than the other two species.Hspsceased to be expressed at 37 °C inM. dirhodumandS. avenaewhile expression was maintained inR. padi. In contrast,M. dirhodumwas more cold tolerant and had more cold inducible genes than the others. These results confirm species-specific differences in molecular stress responses and suggest that differences in induced expression ofhspsmay be related to species’ thermal tolerance, thus causing the changes in the relative abundance.