| Title: | Starvation hardiness as preadaptation for life in subterranean habitats |
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| Authors: | ID Kozel, Peter (Author)
ID Novak, Tone (Author)
ID Janžekovič, Franc (Author)
ID Lipovšek Delakorda, Saška (Author)
ID Kozel, Peter (Copyright holder) |
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| Files: |  Kozel_et_al._2023_Starvation_hardiness_as_preadaptation_for_life_in_subterranean_habitats.pdf (6,56 MB)
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 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36556-9
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FNM - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | subterranean habitats, caves, starvation hardiness |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 04.12.2022 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 06.06.2023 |
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| Publication date: | 14.06.2023 |
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| Publisher: | Nature Research |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | 18 str. |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 13, article no. ǂ9643 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-86400  |
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| UDC: | 591:551.44 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2045-2322 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 155869443 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-023-36556-9 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 08.12.2023 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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