Temperature effects on the jumping performance of house crickets

Deban, Stephen M.; Anderson, Christopher

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“…Thermal robustness through elastic recoil is observed in chameleon and salamander tongue projection, and ballistic mouth opening in frogs and toads, but less so in frog or house cricket jumping ( Hirano and Rome, 1984 ; Anderson and Deban, 2010 ; Deban and Richardson, 2011 ; Deban and Lappin, 2011 ; Scales et al, 2017 ; Olberding and Deban, 2021 ; Deban and Anderson, 2021 ). Deban and Anderson (2021) showed that jumping performance in house crickets was relatively more temperature sensitive than jumping in fleas and other insects despite use of elastic recoil mechanisms. The authors suggest that this could be due to additional muscle contributions during the takeoff phase, or dealing with high loads, which are known to result in temperature-dependent work outputs ( Olberding and Deban, 2017 ).…”

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“…In contrast, peak velocity, acceleration, and power of elastically actuated tongue projection in chameleons shows Q 10 values that range from 1.1-1.3 across 15-25°C indicating Journal of Experimental Biology • Accepted manuscript that tongue projection is relatively insensitive to the change in temperature (Anderson and Deban 2010). Thermal robustness through elastic recoil has also been observed in salamander tongue projection (Deban and Richardson 2011;Scales et al 2017;Deban et al 2021) and anuran tongue projection and ballistic mouth opening (Deban and Lappin 2011;Sandusky and Deban 2012) suggesting that elastic recoil mechanisms underlie thermally robust behaviors in some ectothermic organisms.…”

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“…cricket jumping(Hirano and Rome 1984;Anderson and Deban 2010;Deban and Richardson 2011;Deban and Lappin 2011;Scales et al 2017;Olberding and Deban 2021;Deban and Anderson 2021…”

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The effects of temperature on elastic energy storage and release in a system with a dynamic mechanical advantage latch

Mendoza,

Martinez,

Olberding

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Changes in temperature alter muscle kinetics and in turn affect whole-organism performance. Some organisms use the elastic recoil of biological springs, structures which are far less temperature sensitive, to power thermally robust movements. For jumping frogs, the use of elastic energy in tendons is facilitated through a geometric latching mechanism that operates through dynamic changes in the mechanical advantage (MA) of the hindlimb. Despite the well-documented use of elastic energy storage, frog jumping is a locomotor behavior that is significantly affected by changes in temperature. Here, we used an in vitro muscle preparation interacting in real-time with an in silico model of a legged jumper to understand how changes in temperature affected the flow of energy in a system using a MA latch. We used the plantaris longus muscle-tendon unit (MTU) to power a virtual limb with changing MA and a mass being accelerated through a real-time feedback controller. We quantified the amount of energy stored in and recovered from elastic structures and the additional contribution of direct muscle work after unlatching. We found that temperature altered the duration of energy loading and recovery phase of the in vitro/in silico experiments. We found that the early phase of loading was insensitive to changes in temperature. However, an increase in temperature did increase the rate of force development which in turn allowed for increased energy storage in the second phase of loading. We also found that the contribution of direct muscle work after unlatching was substantial and increased significantly with temperature. Our results show that the thermal robustness achieved by an elastic mechanism depends strongly on the nature of the latch that mediates energy flow, and that the relative contribution of elastic and direct muscle energy likely shape the thermal sensitivity of locomotor systems.

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The effects of temperature on elastic energy storage and release in a system with a dynamic mechanical advantage latch

Mendoza,

Martinez,

Olberding

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…A. domesticus is an excellent and often used model organism due to its many advantages, such as its small size, ease of rearing, short life cycle, nutrient richness, lack of diapause, high tolerance and ease of handling ( Clifford et al, 1977 ; Crocker and Hunter, 2018 ). These advantages make this species ideal for research on the development and utilization of edible and forage insects ( Patton, 1978 ; Grossmann et al, 2021 ; Khatun et al, 2021 ), immune regulation ( Piñera et al, 2013 ), adult neurogenesis ( Cayre et al, 2007 ), and other topics ( Nelson and Nolen, 1997 ; Fuciarelli and Rollo, 2020 ; Deban and Anderson, 2021 ; Li and Rollo, 2021 ). Moreover, after A. domesticus eclosion, their flight muscles degraded, and some but not all individuals shed their hind wings, resulting in wing dimorphism.…”

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Screening and identification of genes associated with flight muscle histolysis of the house cricket Acheta domesticus

Wang²,

Lin³

et al. 2023

Front. Physiol.

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Introduction: Flight muscle histolysis, as an important survival strategy, is a widespread phenomenon in insects and facilitates adaptation to the external environment in various insect taxa. However, the regulatory mechanism underlying this phenomenon in Orthoptera remains unknown.Methods: In this study, the flight muscle histolysis in the house cricket Acheta domesticus was investigated by transcriptomics and RNA interference.Results: The results showed that flight muscle histolysis in A. domesticus was standard and peaked within 9 days after eclosion of adult crickets, and there was no significant difference in the peak time or morphology of flight muscle histolysis between males and females. In addition, the differentially expressed genes between before and after flight muscle histolysis were studied, of which AdomFABP, AdomTroponin T and AdomActin were identified as candidate genes, and after injecting the dsRNA of these three candidates, only the downregulated expression of AdomFABP led to flight muscle histolysis in A. domesticus. Furthermore, the expression level of AdomFABP was compared between before and after flight muscle histolysis based on RT-qPCR.Disscussion: We speculated that AdomFABP might play a role in the degradation of flight muscle by inhibiting muscle development. Our findings laid a molecular foundation for understanding the flight muscle histolysis.

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“…Critically, such movements are thermally robust: Elastic-based mechanisms operate equally well (or better) across a broader range of temperatures without substantial performance decrement ( Deban and Lappin 2011 ; Quenta Herrera et al. 2018 ; Deban and Anderson 2021 ).…”

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The Effect of Thermally Robust Ballistic Mechanisms on Climatic Niche in Salamanders

Friedman

Muñoz

2022

Integrative Organismal Biology

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Many organismal functions are temperature dependent due to the contractile properties of muscle. Spring-based mechanisms offer a thermally robust alternative to temperature-sensitive muscular movements and may correspondingly expand species’ climatic niche by partially decoupling the relationship between temperature and performance. Using the ballistic tongues of salamanders as a case study, we explore whether the thermal robustness of elastic feeding mechanisms increases climatic niche breath, expands geographic range size, and alters the dynamics of niche evolution. Combining phylogenetic comparative methods with global climate data, we find that feeding mechanism imparts no discernable signal on either climatic niche properties or on the evolutionary dynamics of most climatic niche parameters. Although biomechanical innovation in feeding influences many features of whole-organism performance, it does not appear to drive macro-climatic niche evolution in salamanders. We recommend that future work incorporate micro-scale environmental data to better capture the conditions that salamanders experience, and we discuss a few outstanding questions in this regard. Overall, this study lays the groundwork for investigation into the evolutionary relationships between climatic niche and biomechanical traits in ectotherms.

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Temperature effects on the jumping performance of house crickets

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

The effects of temperature on elastic energy storage and release in a system with a dynamic mechanical advantage latch

The effects of temperature on elastic energy storage and release in a system with a dynamic mechanical advantage latch

Screening and identification of genes associated with flight muscle histolysis of the house cricket Acheta domesticus

The Effect of Thermally Robust Ballistic Mechanisms on Climatic Niche in Salamanders

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