Aged virgin adults respond to extreme heat events with phenotypic plasticity in an invasive species, Drosophila suzukii

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Xue, Qi

作者： Xue, Qi;Ma, Chun-Sen

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关键词： Drosophila suzukii; Heat tolerance; Plasticity; Aging; Mating status

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY （ 影响因子：2.354； 五年影响因子：3.045 ）

ISSN： 0022-1910

年卷期： 2020 年 121 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Climate warming has increased the frequency of extreme heat events. Alien species usually invade new areas with a low-density population and often have limited mating opportunities due to the unsynchronized emergence of adults. Early-emerging virgin adults often have to wait to mate with later-emerging partners at the cost of aging, which reduces thermal tolerance. To understand the adaptive strategies of virgin males/females versus those of mated males/females in response to heat stress during aging, we conducted a fully factorial experiment to test the basal and plastic heat tolerance (CTmax, critical thermal maximum) of males and females with different mating statuses (virgin and mated) at different ages (5, 10, and 15 days after eclosion) after different acclimation regimes (null, rapid and developmental heat acclimation) in a well-known invasive species, Drosophila suzukii. We found that mating could change the heat tolerance of adults during aging. Mated females had higher basal heat tolerance than virgin females, while mated males had lower tolerance than virgin males. Mating could generally decrease the acclimation capacity (i.e., plasticity of heat tolerance) during aging. Aged virgin adults had a much higher acclimation capacity than aged mated adults. Our findings suggest that phenotypic plasticity of heat tolerance may be a main strategy used by virgin adults to cope with heat events. The phenotypic plasticity of thermal tolerance could increase the invasion success of alien species in new areas by allowing them to rapid respond to local temperature changes.

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