20.500.12556/DKUM-86400 Starvation hardiness as preadaptation for life in subterranean habitats Most subterranean habitats, especially caves, are considered extreme environments, mainly because of the limited and erratic food supply and constant darkness. In temperate regions, many climatic conditions, such as temperature and air humidity, are periodically less adverse or even more favourable in caves than the harsh seasonal weather on the surface. Accordingly, many animal species search for hibernacula in caves. These overwintering, non-specialized subterranean species (nontroglobionts) show various modes of dormancy and ongoing development. Since they do not feed, they all undergo periodic starvation, a preadaptation, which might evolve in permanent starvation hardiness, such as found in most specialized subterranean species (troglobionts). To this end, we performed a comparative analysis of energy-supplying compounds in eleven most common terrestrial non-troglobiont species during winter in central European caves. We found highly heterogeneous responses to starvation, which are rather consistent with the degree of energetic adaptation to the habitat than to overwintering mode. The consumption of energy-supplying compounds was strongly higher taxa-dependant; glycogen is the main energy store in gastropods, lipids in insects, and arachnids rely on both reserve compounds. We assume that permanent starvation hardiness in specialized subterranean species might evolved in many different ways as shown in this study. subterranean habitats caves starvation hardiness true true true Nature Research Angleški jezik Angleški jezik Članek v reviji 2023-11-27 13:01:55 2023-12-08 10:11:51 2024-07-24 09:45:19 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 18 str. article no. ǂ9643 Vol. 13 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno apc 2022-12-04 2023-06-06 2023-06-14 591:551.44 155869443 10.1038/s41598-023-36556-9 2045-2322 Kozel_et_al._2023_Starvation_hardiness_as_preadaptation_for_life_in_subterranean_habitats.pdf Kozel_et_al._2023_Starvation_hardiness_as_preadaptation_for_life_in_subterranean_habitats.pdf 1 FAFD5C631BC556ED86C2B8C3274B0CC6 9af393d50b62f31605d102f8bf6caa65162dd0d50834523816ac23d2af3d481d cc54aa46-8d1c-11ee-88ec-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=174332 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36556-9 1 1dead41c-8d1f-11ee-88ec-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=174334 Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0