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Life‐history strategy and behavioral type: risk‐tolerance reflects growth rate and energy allocation in ant colonies 下载免费PDF全文
Despite the recent interest in animal personality and behavioral syndromes, there is a paucity of explanations for why distinct behavioral traits should evolve to correlate. We investigate whether such correlations across apparently distinct behavioral traits may be explained by variation in life history strategy among individual ant colonies. Life history theory predicts that the way in which individuals allocate energy towards somatic maintenance or reproduction drives several distinct traits in physiology, morphology, and energy use; it also predicts that an individual's willingness to engage in risky behaviors should depend on reproductive strategy. We use Temnothorax ants, which have been shown to exhibit ‘personalities’ and a syndrome that may reflect risk tolerance at the colony level. We measure colonies' relative investment in growth rate (new workers produced) compared to reproductive effort (males and queens produced). Comparing sterile worker production to reproductive alate production provides a direct measure of how colonies are investing their energy, analogous to investment in growth versus reproduction in a unitary organism. Consistently with this idea, we found that behavioral type of ant colonies was associated with their life history strategy: risk‐tolerant colonies grew faster and invested more in reproduction, whereas risk‐averse colonies had lower growth rate but invested relatively more in workers. This provides evidence that behavioral syndromes can be a consequence of life‐history strategy variation, linking the two fields and supporting the use of an integrative approach. 相似文献
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Y Deng J Zhao D Sakurai KM Kaufman JC Edberg RP Kimberly DL Kamen GS Gilkeson CO Jacob RH Scofield CD Langefeld JA Kelly ME Alarcón-Riquelme BIOLUPUS GENLES Networks JB Harley TJ Vyse BI Freedman PM Gaffney KM Sivils JA James TB Niewold RM Cantor W Chen BH Hahn EE Brown PROFILE BP Tsao 《Arthritis research & therapy》2012,14(Z3):A5
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Lidocaine block of cardiac sodium channels was studied in voltage-clamped rabbit purkinje fibers at drug concentrations ranging from 1 mM down to effective antiarrhythmic doses (5-20 μM). Dose-response curves indicated that lidocaine blocks the channel by binding one-to-one, with a voltage-dependent K(d). The half-blocking concentration varied from more than 300 μM, at a negative holding potential where inactivation was completely removed, to approximately 10 μM, at a depolarized holding potential where inactivation was nearly complete. Lidocaine block showed prominent use dependence with trains of depolarizing pulses from a negative holding potential. During the interval between pulses, repriming of I (Na) displayed two exponential components, a normally recovering component (τless than 0.2 s), and a lidocaine-induced, slowly recovering fraction (τ approximately 1-2 s at pH 7.0). Raising the lidocaine concentration magnified the slowly recovering fraction without changing its time course; after a long depolarization, this fraction was one-half at approximately 10 μM lidocaine, just as expected if it corresponded to drug-bound, inactivated channels. At less than or equal to 20 μM lidocaine, the slowly recovering fraction grew exponentially to a steady level as the preceding depolarization was prolonged; the time course was the same for strong or weak depolarizations, that is, with or without significant activation of I(Na). This argues that use dependence at therapeutic levels reflects block of inactivated channels, rather than block of open channels. Overall, these results provide direct evidence for the “modulated-receptor hypothesis” of Hille (1977) and Hondeghem and Katzung (1977). Unlike tetrodotoxin, lidocaine shows similar interactions with Na channels of heart, nerve, and skeletal muscle. 相似文献
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V Lakshmi Ranganatha Mallikarjunaswamy C Jagadeep Chandra S Ramith Ramu Prithvi S Shirahatti Naveen Kumar Sowmya BP Hussien Ahmed Khamees Mahendra Madegowda Shaukath Ara Khanum 《Bioinformation》2021,17(3):393
It is of interest to document the design, synthesis, docking, Hirshfeld surface analysis and DFT calculations of 2-methylxanthen-9-with the FtsZ protein (PDB ID: 3VOB) from Staphylococcus aureus for antimicrobial applications. We report the quantitative structure function data in this context. 相似文献
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Body size is often positively correlated with ecologically relevant traits such as fecundity, survival, resource requirements, and home range size. Ant colonies, in some respects, behave like organisms, and their colony size is thought to be a significant predictor of many behavioral and ecological traits similar to body size in unitary organisms. In this study, we test the relationship between colony size and field foraging distance in the ant species Temnothorax rugatulus. These ants forage in the leaf litter presumably for small arthropod prey. We found colonies did not differ significantly in their foraging distances, and colony size is not a significant predictor of foraging distance. This suggests that large colonies may not exhaust local resources or that foraging trips are not optimized for minimal distance, and thus that food may not be the limiting resource in this species. This study shows T. rugatulus are behaving in ways that differ from existing models of scaling. 相似文献
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Collins PJ Daglish GJ Bengston M Lambkin TM Pavic H 《Journal of economic entomology》2002,95(4):862-869
The inheritance of resistance to phosphine was studied in two strains of the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.), labeled 'Weak-R' and 'Strong-R'. These strains were purified versions of field-selected populations collected in Queensland, Australia. Weak-R and Strong-R were, respectively, 23.4 times (20-h exposure) and 600 times (48-h exposure) resistant to phosphine compared with a reference susceptible strain (S-strain). Each -R strain was crossed with the S-strain and the response to phosphine was measured in their respective F1, F2, and F1-backcross (F1-BC) progenies. Data from testing of reciprocal F1 progeny indicated that resistance in Weak-R was autosomal and incompletely recessive with a degree of dominance -0.96. Modified chi-square analysis and contingency analysis of the observed response to phosphine of F1-BC and F2 progenies rejected the hypothesis of single gene inheritance of resistance. Analysis of the response of the F1, F2, and F1-BC progeny from the Strong-R x S-strain cross also rejected the null hypothesis for single gene resistance. Resistance in the Strong-R strain was autosomal and incompletely recessive with a degree of dominance of -0.64. The Weak-R and Strong-R strains were then crossed. Analysis ofthe F1 and F2 progenies of this reciprocal cross revealed that the strong resistance phenotype was coded by a combination of the genes already present in the Weak-R genotype plus an extra major, incompletely recessive gene. There was also evidence of a minor dominant gene present in approximately 5% of Strong-R individuals. 相似文献
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A plasmid library of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus HindIII fragments was
constructed, and clones that complemented an Escherichia coli pabA mutant
were selected. Plasmids containing a 3.9-kb fragment of A. calcoaceticus
DNA that also complemented E. coli trpD and trpC-(trpF+) mutants were
obtained. We infer that complementation of E. coli pabA mutants was the
result of the expression of the amphibolic anthranilate-
synthase/p-aminobenzoate-synthase glutamine-amidotransferase gene and that
the plasmid insert carried the entire trpGDC gene cluster. In E. coli
minicells, the plasmid insert directed the synthesis of polypeptides of
44,000, 33,000, and 20,000 daltons, molecular masses that are consistent
with the reported molecular masses of phosphoribosylanthranilate
transferase, indoleglycerol-phosphate synthase, and anthranilate-synthase
component II, respectively. A 3,105- bp nucleotide sequence was determined.
Comparison of the A. calcoaceticus trpGDC sequences with other known trp
gene sequences has allowed insight into (1) the evolution of the amphibolic
trpG gene, (2) varied strategies for coordinate expression of trp genes,
and (3) mechanisms of gene fusions in the trp operon.
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Lynn Bengston Veronica Lopez Scott Watamura Nancy G. Forger 《Developmental neurobiology》1996,31(2):263-273
Motoneuron death in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) and the dorsolateral nucleus (DLN) of the lumbar spinal cord is androgen regulated. As a result, many more SNB and DLN motoneurons die in perinatal female rats than in males, whereas treatment of newborn females with androgen results in a permanent sparing of the motoneurons and their target muscles. We previously observed that a neurotrophic molecule, ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), also arrests the death of SNB motoneurons and their target musculature, at least in the short term. The present study compares the short- and long-term consequences of perinatal CNTF treatment on motoneuron number in the SNB, the DLN, and the retrodorsolateral nucleus (RDLN), a motor pool in the lower lumbar cord that does not exhibit hormone-regulated cell death. Female pups were treated with CNTF or vehicle alone from embryonic day 22 through postnatal day 6 (P6). Motoneuron number in each nucleus was then determined immediately after treatment on P7, or 10 weeks later (P77). CNTF treatment significantly elevated motoneuron number in the SNB and DLN on P7; the volume of SNB target muscles on P7 was also greater in the CNTF-treated group. These effects were transient, however, as motoneuron number and ratings of muscle size were not different in CNTF- and vehicle-treated females on P77. Perinatal CNTF treatment did not alter cell number in the RDLN at either age. The finding that effects of CNTF on SNB and DLN motoneuron number are short lived contrasts with the permanent effects of early androgen treatment, and has implications for molecular models of the actions of androgen and neurotrophic factors on the developing spinal cord. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 相似文献
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BP ONeill TM Habermann TE Witzig M Rodriguez 《Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII》1999,16(3):211-215
Five patients at risk for primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) recurrence were treated with high-dose methylprednisolone,
(HDMP) to prevent ‘trafficking’ of malignant lymphocytes into the central nervous system (CNS). HDMP was chosen because of
its ability to stabilize the ‘blood brain barrier (BBB)’. Three men with newly diagnosed PCNSL, ages 62, 76 and 78 y, whose
survival was projected to be 6.6 months, began treatment after achieving complete response (CR) to initial radiation therapy
alone and survived 27, 37 and 59 months after treatment. In none was death from recurrent disease in CNS but one patient did
die of systemic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) five years after PCNSL diagnosis. A 20 y old man was treated with HDMP after
successful combined modality therapy and is alive 75+months after initial diagnosis without evidence of disease recurrence.
A 34 y old man relapsed after combined modality initial treatment and failed to respond to HDMP when treatment was begun after
unsuccessful salvage therapy; he died of disease 12 months after initial diagnosis. There were no treatment complications.
The promising results in this pilot study from the basis for a North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) 96-73-51, a Phase
2 clinical trial of brain radiotherapy and HDMP for PCNSL patients 70 y of age and older, a group of patients at high risk
for toxicity from intensive combined modality therapy. 相似文献