Dietary cadmium induced declined locomotory and reproductive fitness with altered homeostasis of essential elements in Drosophila melanogaster

Nanda, Kumari Pragati; Firdaus, Hena

doi:10.1016/j.cbpc.2022.109289

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“…This reduction can significantly influence population dynamics, sustainability, and genetic diversity, affecting the population's adaptability to changing environmental conditions. This parallels findings from studies on Drosophila's reproductive fitness involving other heavy metals like Cadium (Hu et al, 2019;Yung et al, 2020;Kumari and Hena, 2022).…”

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CO-ADMINISTRATION OF RESVERATROL RESCUED LEAD-INDUCED TOXICITY INDROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

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Onyawole

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Lead toxicity is a major environmental issue and has been associated with various health problems such as cognitive and behavioral impairments, reproductive defects and cellular oxidative stress. The study investigated the potential of resveratrol in mitigating the effects of lead-induced toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster. Three (3) days old Harwich strain adult D. melanogaster were orally exposed to Pb (60 mg/L), Succimer (10 mg/kg), and Resveratrol (50, 100 and 150 mg/kg). Biological and biochemical parameters (ALP, AST, TB, CB, and electrolytes levels), kidney function test (Ur and Cr), oxidative stress marker (MDA), and antioxidants (SOD, and CAT) were evaluated. Resveratrol significantly increased egg-laying, eclosion rate, filial generation output, locomotor activity, and life span of D. melanogaster in a dose-dependent manner up to 150 mg/kg of diet. Most biochemical parameters investigated were significantly rescued in the lead-poisoned fruit flies (p < 0.05) when co-treated with resveratrol. The results suggest that resveratrol has a protective effect against lead toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster and could potentially be used as a therapeutic agent for lead poisoning in humans.

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CO-ADMINISTRATION OF RESVERATROL RESCUED LEAD-INDUCED TOXICITY INDROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Abdulazeez

Salisu²,

Onyawole

et al. 2023

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“…Cadmium, a highly toxic and diffusible element in the environment, is commonly known to have negative effects on numerous life-history traits in animals, such as development, survival, immunity, fecundity and fertility (e.g. Bryan et al, 1995;Cervera et al, 2004;Honorio et al, 2021;Jacquier et al, 2020;Malakar et al, 2009;Nanda & Firdaus, 2022). In this study, we used the European earwig, to test, for the first time, its effects on egg production and maternal egg care -a major fitness-related social behavior occuring in a wide range of animals (Meunier et al, 2022).…”

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“…Physiological changes include, for instance, reduced growth in bluegills (Bryan, Atchison, & Sandheinrich, 1995), compromised growth and survival in grasshoppers (Malakar, Ganguly, & Haldar, 2009), and impaired growth, survival and fecundity in ants (Honorio, Jacquier, Doums, & Molet, 2021;Jacquier et al, 2020). Conversely, the behavioral changes include effects on cognition in humans (Gustin, Tofail, Vahter, & Kippler, 2018;Shao & Zhu, 2020), on locomotion and reproduction in Drosophila (Nanda & Firdaus, 2022), on aggressivity in rats (Arito, Sudo, & Suzuki, 1981) and on the formation of dominance hierarchies in trouts (Sloman et al, 2003). Considering the importance of egg care in the development and biology of many species (Meunier et al, 2022), it is surprising that the impact of cadmium on egg care remained unexplored until now.…”

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Effects of cadmium ingestion on reproduction and maternal egg care in the European earwig

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“…Apart from self-grooming, our data shows that cadmium consumption did not affect any other trait measured in mothers and juveniles during the 14 days following egg hatching. This is surprising because cadmium intake typically has negative effects on a wide range of traits, from survival to reproduction and development, in taxa from insects to mammals (Arito et al 1981;Cervera et al 2004;Malakar et al 2009;Li et al 2018;Jacquier et al 2020 Sep 30;Luo et al 2020;Honorio et al 2021;Nanda and Firdaus 2022). Even more surprising, developing nymphs did not suffer increased mortality following cadmium ingestion.…”

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“…However, its effects on behaviour, and especially parental care, are still poorly understood and are sometimes contradictory. On one hand, studies show that cadmium ingestion can have detrimental effects on the expression of certain behaviours such as aggression in rats (Arito et al 1981), locomotion in the common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Nanda and Firdaus 2022) and mating behavior in the Asian corn borer Ostrinia furnacalis and the beet armyworm Spodoptera exigua (Luo et al 2020;Su et al 2021). On the other hand, a recent study did not detect an effect of cadmium ingestion on the expression of maternal care toward eggs and egg hatching rate in the European earwig (Honorio et al 2023).…”

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Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs

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Anthropogenic pollution is steadily increasing and has a major impact on biodiversity. Chemical pollutants in particular affect many reproductive, physiological, and survival traits in a wide range of organisms. However, the effects on behavioral traits have been less studied, although they could have wide-ranging negative effects from the individual to the community level. Here, we attempted to fill this knowledge gap by investigating the effect of a common heavy metal pollutant, cadmium, on post-hatching maternal care and juvenile development in the European earwig Forficula auricularia. We fed 108 earwig families with five different cadmium concentrations (0, 12.5, 25, 50, and 100 mg.L−1), and measured ten parameters related to offspring care, non-care maternal behaviors, investment in maternal care and two parameters of offspring development (offspring weight gain and survival). Somewhat surprisingly, we found no effect of cadmium ingestion on any of the parameters measured, except for maternal self-grooming behavior. In particular, the ingestion of cadmium by group members did not result in an overall decrease in the expression of care by the contaminated mothers or in an overall higher level of care received by the contaminated offspring. By contrast, mothers fed the highest dose of cadmium showed an increase in self-grooming, probably due to the stress of toxic ingestion. Overall, our study raises questions about whether and how parent–offspring interactions can alter the negative effects of contaminated environments in social species.

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Dietary cadmium induced declined locomotory and reproductive fitness with altered homeostasis of essential elements in Drosophila melanogaster

Cited by 9 publications

References 70 publications

CO-ADMINISTRATION OF RESVERATROL RESCUED LEAD-INDUCED TOXICITY INDROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

CO-ADMINISTRATION OF RESVERATROL RESCUED LEAD-INDUCED TOXICITY INDROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Effects of cadmium ingestion on reproduction and maternal egg care in the European earwig

Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs

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