التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
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The effect of stress on rates of asexual reproduction in an invasive planarian. |
| المؤلفون: |
Rock, Sebastian L., Oudendijk, Zowi, Kürten, Fabian T., Veglia, Leonardo, Tyukosova, Valentina, Bourtzi, Ioanna, Verzé, Nicholas, Sloggett, John J. |
| المصدر: |
Ecotoxicology; Dec2023, Vol. 32 Issue 10, p1201-1208, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ASEXUAL reproduction, STRAINS & stresses (Mechanics), ANIMAL reproduction, REPRODUCTION, PLANARIA, BEHEADING |
| مستخلص: |
Animal reproduction under stressful conditions is often reduced, with current survival and future reproduction being generally traded off against current reproductive activity. This study examines the impacts of physical and chemical stressors on the rates of asexual reproduction of the invasive planarian Girardia tigrina. 320 wild-caught planaria (mixed size class) were kept individually in Petri dishes such that their individual rates of fission through fragmentation could be easily monitored. Four treatment groups were compared, one chemical (5 mg/L ammonia) and one physical (decapitation), in comparison to a negative control (animals were starved of food) and a positive control where the animals were given an abundance of food. The two treatment groups immediately began reproducing asexually and accumulated the highest number of fissions over the course of the 12-day investigation period, while the positive control only began to fission after 7 days. We propose that the reproductive response observed here is an adaptive one to stressful conditions, whereby the likelihood of survival through numerical abundance is enhanced, although the size and vulnerability of resulting fragments may impose a balancing cost. The response may play a role in the invasiveness of G. tigrina by making it able to colonize environments where adverse conditions prevail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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