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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 223, 期 14, 页码 -出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.214841
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Fish; Salmon; Temperature; Thermal stress; Metabolism; Oxidative stress; Hormones
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资金
- University of California Santa Barbara Faculty Research Award
- Canada Research Chair program
- NSERC
- DFO's Aquatic Climate Change Adaptation Services Program
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Female-biased mortality has been repeatedly reported in Pacific salmon during their upriver migration in both field studies and laboratory holding experiments, especially in the presence of multiple environmental stressors, including thermal stress. Here, we used coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) to test whether females exposed to elevated water temperatures (18 degrees C) (i) suppress circulating sex hormones (testosterone, 11-ketotestosterone and estradiol), owing to elevated cortisol levels, (ii) have higher activities of enzymes supporting anaerobic metabolism (e.g. lactate dehydrogenase, LDH), (iii) have lower activities of enzymes driving oxidative metabolism (e.g. citrate synthase, CS) in skeletal and cardiac muscle, and (iv) have more oxidative stress damage and reduced capacity for antioxidant defense [lower catalase (CAT) activity]. We found no evidence that a higher susceptibility to oxidative stress contributes to female-biased mortality at warm temperatures. We did, however, find that females had significantly lower cardiac LDH and that 18 degrees C significantly reduced plasma levels of testosterone and estradiol, especially in females. We also found that relative gonad size was significantly lower in the 18 degrees C treatment regardless of sex, whereas relative liver size was significantly lower in females held at 18 degrees C. Further, relative spleen size was significantly elevated in the 18 degrees C treatments across both sexes, with larger warm-induced increases in females. Our results suggest that males may better tolerate bouts of cardiac hypoxia at high temperature, and that thermal stress may also disrupt testosterone- and estradiol-mediated protein catabolism, and the immune response (larger spleens), in migratory female salmon.
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