ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Heritable variation in heat shock gene expression: a potential mechanism for adaptation to thermal stress in embryos of sea turtles.
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- Prenatal Acoustic Signals Influence Nestling Heat Shock Protein Response to Heat and Heterophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in a Desert Bird.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Trans-Acting Genotypes Associated with mRNA Expression Affect Metabolic and Thermal Tolerance Traits.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Spatial variation in high temperature-regulated gene expression predicts evolution of plasticity with climate change in the scarlet monkeyflower.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Transcription dynamics of heat shock proteins in response to thermal acclimation inFrontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Land use and life history constrain adaptive genetic variation and reduce the capacity for climate change adaptation in turtles.BMC genomics · 2021Article
- Plasma proteomics of green turtles (Conservation physiology · 2021Article
- Does gene flow aggravate or alleviate maladaptation to environmental stress in small populations?Evolutionary applications · 2019Article
- Comparisons of Expression Levels of Heat Shock Proteins (hsp70 and hsp90) From Anaphothrips obscurus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Polymorphic Adults Exposed to Different Heat Shock Treatments.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2018Article
- Genetic architecture of gene transcription in two Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations.Heredity · 2017Article
- Potential for adaptation to climate change: family-level variation in fitness-related traits and their responses to heat waves in a snail population.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
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Abstract
The capacity of species to respond adaptively to warming temperatures will be key to their survival in the Anthropocene. The embryos of egg-laying species such as sea turtles have limited behavioural means for avoiding high nest temperatures, and responses at the physiological level may be critical to coping with predicted global temperature increases. Using the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) as a model, we used quantitative PCR to characterise variation in the expression response of heat-shock genes (hsp60, hsp70 and hsp90; molecular chaperones involved in cellular stress response) to an acute non-lethal heat shock. We show significant variation in gene expression at the clutch and population levels for some, but not all hsp genes. Using pedigree information, we estimated heritabilities of the expression response of hsp genes to heat shock and demonstrated both maternal and additive genetic effects. This is the first evidence that the heat-shock response is heritable in sea turtles and operates at the embryonic stage in any reptile. The presence of heritable variation in the expression of key thermotolerance genes is necessary for sea turtles to adapt at a molecular level to warming incubation environments.
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