Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches
Environmental temperature is a critical factor for all forms of life, and thermal tolerance defines the habitats utilized by a species. Moreover, the evolutionary tuning of thermal perception can also play a key role in habitat selection. Yet, the relative importance of thermal tolerance and percept...
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author | Saito, Shigeru Saito, Claire T Igawa, Takeshi Takeda, Nodoka Komaki, Shohei Ohta, Toshio Tominaga, Makoto |
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description | Environmental temperature is a critical factor for all forms of life, and thermal tolerance defines the habitats utilized by a species. Moreover, the evolutionary tuning of thermal perception can also play a key role in habitat selection. Yet, the relative importance of thermal tolerance and perception in environmental adaptation remains poorly understood. Thermal conditions experienced by anuran tadpoles differ among species due to the variation in breeding seasons and water environments selected by parental frogs. In the present study, heat tolerance and avoidance temperatures were compared in tadpoles from five anuran species that spatially and temporally inhabit different thermal niches. These two parameters were positively correlated with each other and were consistent with the thermal conditions of habitats. The species difference in avoidance temperature was 2.6 times larger than that in heat tolerance, suggesting the importance of heat avoidance responses in habitat selection. In addition, the avoidance temperature increased after warm acclimation, especially in the species frequently exposed to heat in their habitats. Characterization of the heat-sensing transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) ion channel revealed an amphibian-specific alternatively spliced variant containing a single valine insertion relative to the canonical alternative spliced variant of TRPA1, and this novel variant altered the response to thermal stimuli. The two alternatively spliced variants of TRPA1 exhibited different thermal responses in a species-specific manner, which are likely to be associated with a difference in avoidance temperatures among species. Together, our findings suggest that the functional change in TRPA1 plays a crucial role in thermal adaptation processes. |
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spelling | pubmed-94478542022-09-07 Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches Saito, Shigeru Saito, Claire T Igawa, Takeshi Takeda, Nodoka Komaki, Shohei Ohta, Toshio Tominaga, Makoto Mol Biol Evol Discoveries Environmental temperature is a critical factor for all forms of life, and thermal tolerance defines the habitats utilized by a species. Moreover, the evolutionary tuning of thermal perception can also play a key role in habitat selection. Yet, the relative importance of thermal tolerance and perception in environmental adaptation remains poorly understood. Thermal conditions experienced by anuran tadpoles differ among species due to the variation in breeding seasons and water environments selected by parental frogs. In the present study, heat tolerance and avoidance temperatures were compared in tadpoles from five anuran species that spatially and temporally inhabit different thermal niches. These two parameters were positively correlated with each other and were consistent with the thermal conditions of habitats. The species difference in avoidance temperature was 2.6 times larger than that in heat tolerance, suggesting the importance of heat avoidance responses in habitat selection. In addition, the avoidance temperature increased after warm acclimation, especially in the species frequently exposed to heat in their habitats. Characterization of the heat-sensing transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) ion channel revealed an amphibian-specific alternatively spliced variant containing a single valine insertion relative to the canonical alternative spliced variant of TRPA1, and this novel variant altered the response to thermal stimuli. The two alternatively spliced variants of TRPA1 exhibited different thermal responses in a species-specific manner, which are likely to be associated with a difference in avoidance temperatures among species. Together, our findings suggest that the functional change in TRPA1 plays a crucial role in thermal adaptation processes. Oxford University Press 2022-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9447854/ /pubmed/35994363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac180 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Discoveries Saito, Shigeru Saito, Claire T Igawa, Takeshi Takeda, Nodoka Komaki, Shohei Ohta, Toshio Tominaga, Makoto Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches |
title | Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches |
title_full | Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches |
title_fullStr | Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches |
title_full_unstemmed | Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches |
title_short | Evolutionary Tuning of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Underlies the Variation in Heat Avoidance Behaviors among Frog Species Inhabiting Diverse Thermal Niches |
title_sort | evolutionary tuning of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 underlies the variation in heat avoidance behaviors among frog species inhabiting diverse thermal niches |
topic | Discoveries |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9447854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35994363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac180 |
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