Injured conspecifics alter mobility and byssus production in zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha

Czarnołęski, Marcin; Müller, Tomasz; Adamus, Katarzyna; Ogorzelska, Gracjana; Sog, Michał

doi:10.1127/1863-9135/2010/0176-0269

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“…In marine bivalves, the presence of predation cues was found to reduce byssus production and mobility in Hormomya mutabilis (Ishida & Iwasaki, 2003), food intake in Mercenaria mercenaria (Smee & Weissburg, 2006) and respiration rates in Perumytilus purpuratus (Vial et al, 1992;Lopez et al, 1995). In zebra mussels, cues from injured conspecifics have been found to reduce mobility (Toomey et al, 2002;Czarnoleski et al, 2010b), clearance rates (Naddafi et al, 2007;Naddafi & Rudstam, 2014) and attachment strength (Czarnoleski et al, 2010b(Czarnoleski et al, , 2011, and to bias filter-feeding towards easy-to-digest foods (Naddafi et al, 2007). In our experiments, the degree of aggregation and attachment strength of zebra mussels were not significantly affected by the treatment conditions.…”

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“…The byssus of zebra mussels has been shown to reduce the risk of dislodgement by predatory fish (Kobak & Kakareko, 2011), suggesting that strengthening the byssal attachment might be a crucial part of an inducible defence strategy in this species. Surprisingly, experiments on zebra mussels found two contradictory patterns: the presence of non-feeding roach increased the strength of byssal attachments (Kobak et al, 2010), but the presence of crushed conspecifics (Czarnoleski et al, 2010b) or crayfish fed conspecific mussels (Czarnoleski et al, 2011) resulted in weaker byssal attachments. Czarnoleski et al (2011) speculated that cues about the presence of fish and the presence of injured conspecifics might indicate two different threats.…”

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“…These data were used to estimate what proportion of the body mass of intact mussels was made up of soft tissue mass. Treatment iii was established following the methods of Czarnoleski et al (2010b). In brief, 32.5 g of live mussels (8-5 mm length) was homogenized in a mortar and mixed with water.…”

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“…This property of our index was likely to be biologically relevant because individual mussels in a large clump should better resist dislodgement by predators than individual mussels in a small clump. Following Czarnoleski et al (2010b), we measured the attachment strength of the byssus with an electronic force gauge (FG-5000A, Lutron Electronic Enterprise Co., Taiwan) assembled on a stand with a hand-operated wheel. The walls of boxes with attached mussels were placed on a counter-top, with the mussels pointing upward.…”

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Sedentary prey facing an acute predation risk: testing the hypothesis of inducible metabolite emission suppression in zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha

2017

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It takes time before a defensive phenotype can be effectively developed, which handicaps sessile bivalves exposed to acute predation risks. In a laboratory experiment, we examined whether predation threats induce zebra mussels to limit metabolic rates, serving as a fast-response defence that reduces the chances of chemical detection by predators. We measured the respiration rate of mussels exposed to predation treatments (fish fed zebra mussels, fish fed chironomids, crushed zebra mussels) and to predationfree conditions, and we tested the effect of these treatments on attachment strength and aggregation. Compared with the predation-free controls, all mussels in the predation treatments tended to initially have suppressed metabolic rates. The rate of metabolism increased over time in all treatments, but only in the presence of fish fed chironomids was the increase significantly greater than in the control. Attachment strengths and aggregation rates were similar for all treatments after 7 days. Our results provide the first evidence of predation-induced changes in zebra mussel metabolic rates. We suggest that mussels respond differently to different types of predation threats. Immediately after receiving predation cues, they react promptly by lowering their production of metabolites, but over time, they re-adjust their response to the actual predation threat present.

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Sedentary prey facing an acute predation risk: testing the hypothesis of inducible metabolite emission suppression in zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha

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“…On the other hand, different responses of prey to various predation cues, i.e. predator kairomones and conspecific alarm substances were also observed in the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha (Czarnołęski et al, 2010;Kobak et al, 2010), which is a highly invasive species (Karatayev et al, 2002).…”

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Predator diet, origin or both? Factors determining responses of omnivorous amphipods to predation cues

Jermacz

Dzierżyńska‐Białończyk

Kobak

2016

Hydrobiologia

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Detection of chemical cues of predators and food resources is a key for the behaviour of many species in aquatic ecosystems. We checked whether predator origin and diet, containing potential food and/ or alarm signals, affect the behaviour of omnivorous prey partly sharing their diet with a top predator. We conducted y-maze experiments to study the responses of invasive omnivorous and cannibalistic amphipods (Dikerogammarus villosus and Pontogammarus robustoides) to chemical cues of fish predators, injured amphipods and chironomid larvae (common amphipod food). As the predators, we used the goby Babka gymnotrachelus (sympatric with the amphipods) and piranha Pygocentrus nattereri (allopatric to the amphipods). The fish were either starved or fed amphipods or chironomids. D. villosus preferred predators fed chironomids and conspecifics as well as crushed conspecifics and chironomids, but avoided both hungry predators. Thus, D. villosus may perceive the presence of a top predator as an indication of both food resource and predation risk. P. robustoides avoided predators fed both amphipods (particularly conspecifics) and their alarm substances. The responses of both species depended more on the predator diet than on its species, which is likely to facilitate the recognition of allopatric predators and survival in newly invaded areas.

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Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism

Zhang,

Elvidge,

et al. 2024

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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Injured conspecifics alter mobility and byssus production in zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha

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Sedentary prey facing an acute predation risk: testing the hypothesis of inducible metabolite emission suppression in zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha

Sedentary prey facing an acute predation risk: testing the hypothesis of inducible metabolite emission suppression in zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha

Predator diet, origin or both? Factors determining responses of omnivorous amphipods to predation cues

Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism

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