Developmental changes in red-eyed treefrog embryo behavior increase escape-hatching success in wasp attacks

Gomez, Elena Katherine; Chaiyasarikul, Alina; Güell, Brandon A.; Warkentin, Karen M.

doi:10.1007/s00265-023-03324-8

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“…The nearby presence of an infected egg and even water-borne cues emitted from infected eggs can induce early hatching in brown trout (Pompini et al, 2013), other salmonids (Wedekind, 2002), and other lower vertebrates (Warkentin et al, 2001). Induced early hatching could also be observed in response to other types of stress such as simulated danger of desiccation (Wedekind & Müller, 2005), a simulated or actual attack by a predator (Gomez et al, 2023;Warkentin, 2005), or exposure to chemical stressors (Lieke et al, 2021). The response of infected embryos can, however, differ in direction.…”

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Growth of brown trout in the wild predicted by embryo stress reaction in the laboratory

Bylemans,

Marques da Cunha,

Wilkins

et al. 2024

Ecology

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Laboratory studies on embryos of salmonids, such as the brown trout (Salmo trutta), have been extensively used to study environmental stress and how responses vary within and between natural populations. These studies are based on the implicit assumption that early life‐history traits are relevant for stress tolerance in the wild. Here we test this assumption by combining two data sets from studies on the same 60 families. These families had been experimentally produced from wild breeders to determine, in separate samples, (1) stress tolerances of singly kept embryos in the laboratory and (2) growth of juveniles during 6 months in the wild. We found that growth in the wild was well predicted by the larval size of their full sibs in the laboratory, especially if these siblings had been experimentally exposed to a pathogen. Exposure to the pathogen had not caused elevated mortality among the embryos but induced early hatching. The strength of this stress‐induced change of life history was a significant predictor of juvenile growth in the wild: the stronger the response in the laboratory, the slower the growth in the wild. We conclude that embryo performance in controlled environments can be a useful predictor of juvenile performance in the wild.

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