Impact of temperature and photoperiod on survival and biomarkers of senescence in common woodlouse

Depeux, Charlotte; Samba-Louaka, Ascel; Braquart‐Varnier, Christine; Moreau, Jérôme; Lemaître, Jean‐François; Laverré, Tiffany; Pauhlac, Hélène; Dechaume-Moncharmont, François-Xavier; Gaillard, Jean‐Michel; Beltran‐Bech, Sophie

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“…Moreover, contrary to what was expected when individuals are senescent, cell size decreased instead of increasing. This last result supports our previous finding that cells decreases in small when the temperature raises (without controlling moisture level, Depeux et al, 2019). That little cells came from a more important cell renewal in stressed animals might explain this pattern.…”

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Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse

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We tested independently the influences of increasing temperature and decreasing moisture on life history and physiological traits in the arthropod Armadillidium vulgare. Both increasing temperature and decreasing moisture led individual body mass and reproductive success to decrease. While immune cells density decreased and β-galactosidase activity increased with increasing temperature and decreasing moisture, suggesting a negative impact of these stresses on individual quality, increased temperature and decreased moisture affected differently the other biomarkers conjuring different underlying mechanisms depending on the stress applied. Our findings demonstrate overall a negative impact of high temperature and low moisture on woodlice welfare. Changing temperature or moisture had slightly different effects, illustrating the need of testing further the respective role of each of these key components of climate change on organisms to predict more reliably the future of our ecosystems.

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Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse

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“…Moreover, contrary to the expectation when individuals are senescent, cell size decreases instead of increasing. This last result supports our previous finding that cells decrease in size when the temperature raises (without controlling moisture level, Depeux et al, 2019). That smaller cells are associated with increased cell renewal in stressed animals might explain this pattern.…”

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“…difference in temperature between the two groups) corresponds to a temperature increase close to daily variations observed in Poitiers during some summers, which could chronically induce stress. Moreover, we have observed the stressful effect of this temperature increase in a preliminary experiment in which we did not control the moisture variation (Depeux et al, 2019).…”

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Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse

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We tested independently the influences of increasing temperature and decreasing moisture on life history and physiological traits in the arthropod Armadillidium vulgare. Both increasing temperature and decreasing moisture led reproductive success to decrease. While the density of immune cells decreased and the β-galactosidase activity increased with increasing temperature and decreasing moisture, which suggests a negative impact of these stressors on individual performance, increased temperature and decreased moisture affected differently the other biomarkers conjuring different underlying mechanisms depending on the stress applied. Our findings demonstrate overall a negative impact of high temperature and low moisture on woodlouse welfare. Changing temperature or moisture had slightly different effects, illustrating the need to test further the respective role of each of these key components of climate change on organisms to predict more reliably the future of our ecosystems.

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“…Sex differences in resource allocation strategies could also be driven by environmental conditions (Shertzer & Ellner, 2002). Our physiological biomarkers of vertebrate senescence revealed sex differences, and as supported in Depeux et al, 2019, they could constitute useful tools to identify other factors involved in variations in senescence patterns, such as environmental stressors. Moreover, if these biomarkers seem to predict better the physiological age than chronological age notably in terms of survival and reproduction, they could correspond to biomarkers of senescence in woodlouse (Baker & Sprott, 1988;Simm et al, 2008;Sprott, 2010).…”

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The crustacean Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804) (Isopoda: Oniscoidea), a new promising model for the study of cellular senescence

Depeux

Samba-Louaka

Becking

et al. 2020

Journal of Crustacean Biology

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Senescence, the decline of physiological parameters with increasing age, is a quasi-ubiquitous phenomenon in the living world. The observed patterns of senescence, however, can markedly differ across species and populations, between sexes, and even among individuals. To identify the drivers of this variation in senescence, experimental approaches are essential and involve the development of tools and new study models. Current knowledge of the senescence process is mostly based on studies on vertebrates and the main information about senescence in invertebrates is mostly limited to model organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans or Drosophila melanogaster. In this context, we tested whether biomarkers of vertebrate ageing could be used to study senescence in a new invertebrate model: the common woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804). More specifically, we looked for the effect of age in woodlouse on three well-established physiological biomarkers of ageing in vertebrates: immune cells (cell size, density, and viability), β-galactosidase activity, and the gene expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), an essential subunit of telomerase protein. We found that the size of immune cells was higher in older individuals, whereas their density and viability decreased, and that the β-galactosidase activity increased with age, whereas the TERT gene expression decreased. These findings demonstrate that woodlouse displays age-related changes in biomarkers of vertebrate senescence, with different patterns depending on gender. The tools used in studies of vertebrate senescence can thus be successfully used in studies of senescence of invertebrates such as the woodlouse. The application of commonly used tools to new biological models offers a promising approach to assess the diversity of senescence patterns across the tree of life.

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Impact of temperature and photoperiod on survival and biomarkers of senescence in common woodlouse

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Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse

Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse

Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse

The crustacean Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804) (Isopoda: Oniscoidea), a new promising model for the study of cellular senescence

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