Use of physiological knowledge to control the invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Siefkes, Michael J.

doi:10.1093/conphys/cox031

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“…With completion of the Welland Canal in the 19th century, land-locked sea lamprey in Lake Ontario were able to bypass Niagara Falls, a natural barrier to their upstream migration, and are now present throughout the Great Lakes, where no natural predators exist (Applegate and Moffett, 1955). Parasitic sea lamprey, which feed on blood and fluids from their host fish, devastated the Great Lakes fishery industry in the early 20th century (Marsden and Siefkes, 2019;Siefkes, 2017). Economic losses resulting from sea lamprey parasitism soon led to efforts to control their numbers (Applegate, 1950).…”

Section: Gene Editing For Management Of Invasive Sea Lampreymentioning

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Functional genetic analysis in a jawless vertebrate, the sea lamprey: insights into the developmental evolution of early vertebrates

York

McCauley

2020

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Lampreys and hagfishes are the only surviving relicts of an ancient but ecologically dominant group of jawless fishes that evolved in the seas of the Cambrian era over half a billion years ago. Because of their phylogenetic position as the sister group to all other vertebrates ( jawed vertebrates), comparisons of embryonic development between jawless and jawed vertebrates offers researchers in the field of evolutionary developmental biology the unique opportunity to address fundamental questions related to the nature of our earliest vertebrate ancestors. Here, we describe how genetic analysis of embryogenesis in the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) has provided insight into the origin and evolution of developmentalgenetic programs in vertebrates. We focus on recent work involving CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing to study gene regulatory mechanisms involved in the development and evolution of neural crest cells and new cell types in the vertebrate nervous system, and transient transgenic assays that have been instrumental in dissecting the evolution of cis-regulatory control of gene expression in vertebrates. Finally, we discuss the broad potential for these functional genomic tools to address previously unanswerable questions related to the evolution of genomic regulatory mechanisms as well as issues related to invasive sea lamprey population control.

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Functional genetic analysis in a jawless vertebrate, the sea lamprey: insights into the developmental evolution of early vertebrates

York

McCauley

2020

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…The sea lamprey is an extant agnathan (Smith et al, 2013) with a highly complex life cycle consisting of a filter-feeding larval (often referred to as an ammocoete) stage lasting 3-7 years, before undergoing a highly synchronized metamorphosis into a juvenile (Youson, 2003). With the exception of invasive sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes (see Siefkes, 2017;Wilkie et al, 2019, for reviews), sea lampreys are anadromous spending their larval phase in FW and their blood-feeding adult phase in SW before returning to FW to spawn (Beamish & Potter, 1975). Stenohaline ammocoetes exhibit osmoregulatory strategies similar to FW teleost fishes (i.e., active ion uptake coupled with restriction of passive ion loss).…”

Section: Sea Lamprey Life Cycle Osmoregulation and Tj Complex Archmentioning

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Claudins of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) – organ‐specific expression and transcriptional responses to water of varying ion content

Kolosov

Bui

Wilkie

et al. 2020

Journal of Fish Biology

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The role of lamprey epithelium tight junctions (TJs) in the regulation of salt and water balance is poorly understood. This study reported on claudin (Cldn) TJ protein transcripts of pre‐metamorphic larval and post‐metamorphic juvenile sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) and the transcriptional response of genes encoding Cldns to changed environmental ion levels. Transcripts encoding Cldn‐3b, ‐4, ‐5, ‐10, ‐14, ‐18 and ‐19 were identified, and mRNA expression profiles revealed the organ‐specific presence of cldn‐5 and ‐14, broad expression of cldn‐3b, ‐4, ‐10, ‐18 and ‐19 and spatial differences in the mRNA abundance of cldn‐4, ‐3b and ‐14 along the ammocoete intestine. Expression profiles were qualitatively similar in ammocoetes and juvenile fishes. Transcript abundance of genes encoding Cldns in osmoregulatory organs (gill, kidney, intestine and skin) was subsequently investigated after exposure of ammocoetes to ion‐poor water (IPW) and juveniles to hyperosmotic conditions [60% sea water (SW)]. IPW‐acclimated ammocoetes increased mRNA abundance of nearly all cldns in the gill. Simultaneously, cldn‐10 abundance increased in the skin, whereas cldn‐4, ‐14 and ‐18 decreased in the kidney. Ammocoete cldn mRNA abundance in the intestine was altered in a region‐specific manner. In contrast, cldn transcript abundance was mostly downregulated in osmoregulatory organs of juvenile fish acclimated to SW – cldn‐3b, ‐10 and ‐19 in the gill; cldn‐3b, ‐4, ‐10 and ‐19 in the skin; cldn‐3b in the kidney; and cldn‐3b and ‐14 in the intestine. Data support the idea that Cldn TJ proteins play an important role in the osmoregulatory physiology of pre‐ and post‐metamorphic sea lamprey and that Cldn participation can occur across organs, in an organ‐specific manner, as well as differ spatially within organs, which contributes to the regulation of salt and water balance in these fishes.

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“…Sex pheromones to attract females are secreted by males, which precede females onto the gravel spawning grounds ( Figure 1; Johnson, Yun, Thompson, Brant, & Li, 2009). Although eradication of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes remains impractical, a program to control their populations has helped rehabilitate the fisheries in the Great Lakes and provides net benefits to the regional economy (Lupi, Hoehn, & Christie, 2003;Siefkes, 2017;Wilkie, Hubert, Boogaard, & Birceanu, 2019).…”

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Potential changes to the biology and challenges to the management of invasive sea lampreyPetromyzon marinusin the Laurentian Great Lakes due to climate change

Lennox

Bravener

Lin

et al. 2020

Global Change Biology

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Control programs are implemented to mitigate the damage caused by invasive species worldwide. In the highly invaded Great Lakes, the climate is expected to become warmer with more extreme weather and variable precipitation, resulting in shorter iced‐over periods and variable tributary flows as well as changes to pH and river hydrology and hydrogeomorphology. We review how climate change influences physiology, behavior, and demography of a damaging invasive species, sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), in the Great Lakes, and the consequences for sea lamprey control efforts. Sea lamprey control relies on surveys to monitor abundance of larval sea lamprey in Great Lakes tributaries. The abundance of parasitic, juvenile sea lampreys in the lakes is calculated by surveying wounding rates on lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), and trap surveys are used to enumerate adult spawning runs. Chemical control using lampricides (i.e., lamprey pesticides) to target larval sea lamprey and barriers to prevent adult lamprey from reaching spawning grounds are the most important tools used for sea lamprey population control. We describe how climate change could affect larval survival in rivers, growth and maturation in lakes, phenology and the spawning migration as adults return to rivers, and the overall abundance and distribution of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. Our review suggests that Great Lakes sea lamprey may benefit from climate change with longer growing seasons, more rapid growth, and greater access to spawning habitat, but uncertainties remain about the future availability and suitability of larval habitats. Consideration of the biology of invasive species and adaptation of the timing, intensity, and frequency of control efforts is critical to the management of biological invasions in a changing world, such as sea lamprey in the Great Lakes.

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Use of physiological knowledge to control the invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Cited by 70 publications

References 134 publications

Functional genetic analysis in a jawless vertebrate, the sea lamprey: insights into the developmental evolution of early vertebrates

Functional genetic analysis in a jawless vertebrate, the sea lamprey: insights into the developmental evolution of early vertebrates

Claudins of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) – organ‐specific expression and transcriptional responses to water of varying ion content

Potential changes to the biology and challenges to the management of invasive sea lampreyPetromyzon marinusin the Laurentian Great Lakes due to climate change

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