ArticleEvolutionary applications2016
Sublethal salinity stress contributes to habitat limitation in an endangered estuarine fish.
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- Salinity Tolerance in Freshwater Drum (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Global complexities and challenges in the restoration of hypersaline coastal wetlands.Cambridge prisms. Coastal futures · 2025Article
- Whole-Genome Resequencing Reveals Polygenic Signatures of Directional and Balancing Selection on Alternative Migratory Life Histories.Molecular ecology · 2024Article
- Impacts of climate change on mangrove subsistence fisheries: a global review.Marine life science & technology · 2024Review
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- Temperature and salinity preferences of endangered Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus, Actinopterygii, Osmeridae).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The time course of molecular acclimation to seawater in a euryhaline fish.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Complex life histories discovered in a critically endangered fish.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Scrutinizing the triad of Vibrio tapetis, the skin barrier and pigmentation as determining factors in the development of skin ulcerations in wild common dab (Limanda limanda).Veterinary research · 2019Article
- Divergent transcriptomic signatures in response to salinity exposure in two populations of an estuarine fish.Evolutionary applications · 2019Article
- Sensitivities of an endemic, endangered California smelt and two non-native fishes to serial increases in temperature and salinity: implications for shifting community structure with climate change.Conservation physiology · 2019Article
- Contaminant exposure effects in a changing climate: how multiple stressors can multiply exposure effects in the amphipod Hyalella azteca.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2018Article
- Combining six genome scan methods to detect candidate genes to salinity in the Mediterranean striped red mullet (Mullus surmuletus).BMC genomics · 2018Article
- Foraging and metabolic consequences of semi-anadromy for an endangered estuarine fish.PloS one · 2017Article
- Unusual aerobic performance at high temperatures in juvenile Chinook salmon,Conservation physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
As global change alters multiple environmental conditions, predicting species' responses can be challenging without understanding how each environmental factor influences organismal performance. Approaches quantifying mechanistic relationships can greatly complement correlative field data, strengthening our abilities to forecast global change impacts. Substantial salinity increases are projected in the San Francisco Estuary, California, due to anthropogenic water diversion and climatic changes, where the critically endangered delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) largely occurs in a low-salinity zone (LSZ), despite their ability to tolerate a much broader salinity range. In this study, we combined molecular and organismal measures to quantify the physiological mechanisms and sublethal responses involved in coping with salinity changes. Delta smelt utilize a suite of conserved molecular mechanisms to rapidly adjust their osmoregulatory physiology in response to salinity changes in estuarine environments. However, these responses can be energetically expensive, and delta smelt body condition was reduced at high salinities. Thus, acclimating to salinities outside the LSZ could impose energetic costs that constrain delta smelt's ability to exploit these habitats. By integrating data across biological levels, we provide key insight into the mechanistic relationships contributing to phenotypic plasticity and distribution limitations and advance the understanding of the molecular osmoregulatory responses in nonmodel estuarine fishes.
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