No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.

Insects hold considerable ecological and agricultural importance making it vital to understand the factors impacting their reproductive output. Environmental stressors are examples of such factors which have a substantial and significant influence on insect reproductive fitness. Insects are also ect...

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Autores principales:	Homica Arya, Regan Toltesi, Michelle Eng, Divita Garg, Thomas J S Merritt, Subhash Rajpurohit
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:52807336a3f24e82a10f75433258ae9b2021-12-02T20:10:50ZNo water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0252920https://doaj.org/article/52807336a3f24e82a10f75433258ae9b2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252920https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Insects hold considerable ecological and agricultural importance making it vital to understand the factors impacting their reproductive output. Environmental stressors are examples of such factors which have a substantial and significant influence on insect reproductive fitness. Insects are also ectothermic and small in size which makes them even more susceptible to environmental stresses. The present study assesses the consequence of desiccation on the mating latency and copulations duration in tropical Drosophila melanogaster. We tested flies for these reproductive behavioral parameters at varying body water levels and with whole metabolome analysis in order to gain a further understanding of the physiological response to desiccation. Our results showed that the duration of desiccation is positively correlated with mating latency and mating failure, while having no influence on the copulation duration. The metabolomic analysis revealed three biological pathways highly affected by desiccation: starch and sucrose metabolism, galactose metabolism, and phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis. These results are consistent with carbohydrate metabolism providing an energy source in desiccated flies and also suggests that the phenylalanine biosynthesis pathway plays a role in the reproductive fitness of the flies. Desiccation is a common issue with smaller insects, like Drosophila and other tropical insects, and our findings indicate that this lack of ambient water can immediately and drastically affect the insect reproductive behaviour, which becomes more crucial because of unpredictable and dynamic weather conditions.Homica AryaRegan ToltesiMichelle EngDivita GargThomas J S MerrittSubhash RajpurohitPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0252920 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Homica Arya Regan Toltesi Michelle Eng Divita Garg Thomas J S Merritt Subhash Rajpurohit No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.
description	Insects hold considerable ecological and agricultural importance making it vital to understand the factors impacting their reproductive output. Environmental stressors are examples of such factors which have a substantial and significant influence on insect reproductive fitness. Insects are also ectothermic and small in size which makes them even more susceptible to environmental stresses. The present study assesses the consequence of desiccation on the mating latency and copulations duration in tropical Drosophila melanogaster. We tested flies for these reproductive behavioral parameters at varying body water levels and with whole metabolome analysis in order to gain a further understanding of the physiological response to desiccation. Our results showed that the duration of desiccation is positively correlated with mating latency and mating failure, while having no influence on the copulation duration. The metabolomic analysis revealed three biological pathways highly affected by desiccation: starch and sucrose metabolism, galactose metabolism, and phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis. These results are consistent with carbohydrate metabolism providing an energy source in desiccated flies and also suggests that the phenylalanine biosynthesis pathway plays a role in the reproductive fitness of the flies. Desiccation is a common issue with smaller insects, like Drosophila and other tropical insects, and our findings indicate that this lack of ambient water can immediately and drastically affect the insect reproductive behaviour, which becomes more crucial because of unpredictable and dynamic weather conditions.
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author	Homica Arya Regan Toltesi Michelle Eng Divita Garg Thomas J S Merritt Subhash Rajpurohit
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title	No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.
title_short	No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.
title_full	No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.
title_fullStr	No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.
title_full_unstemmed	No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.
title_sort	no water, no mating: connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
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No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.

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