Inoculative Freezing and the Problem of Winter Survival for Freshwater Macroinvertebrates

Frisbie, Malcolm Pratt; Lee, Richard

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“…The animals were tested out of the water because of the unnatural mechanical stress that ice-filled containers can produce on the organisms (Frisbie and Lee, 1997). Thus, according to the methods described by Frisbie and Lee, individuals were placed in contact with a thermocouple connected to a Consort data logger.…”

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“…The data dealing with freezing survival in invertebrates are overwhelming, but very few studies have investigated the problem of freezing in aquatic invertebrates (Moore and Lee, 1991;Frisbie and Lee, 1997;Lencioni, 2004). When water from aquatic environments freezes, the physical constraints differ significantly from terrestrial ones: aquatic invertebrates may be subjected to anoxia or mechanical stress due to external ice (Frisbie and Lee, 1997;Lencioni, 2004).…”

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“…When water from aquatic environments freezes, the physical constraints differ significantly from terrestrial ones: aquatic invertebrates may be subjected to anoxia or mechanical stress due to external ice (Frisbie and Lee, 1997;Lencioni, 2004). Moreover, contact with external ice may trigger ice growth inside the body, which strongly increases the probability of freezing occurring.…”

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“…Moreover, contact with external ice may trigger ice growth inside the body, which strongly increases the probability of freezing occurring. As a result, supercooling in aquatic invertebrates may not be a likely strategy (Frisbie and Lee, 1997).…”

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Freezing or supercooling: how does an aquatic subterranean crustacean survive exposures at subzero temperatures?

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Odagescu

et al. 2006

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Crystallization temperature (T c ), resistance to inoculative freezing (IF), ice contents, bound water, protein and glycogen body contents were measured in the aquatic subterranean crustacean Niphargus rhenorhodanensis and in the morphologically close surface-dwelling aquatic crustacean Gammarus fossarum, both acclimated at 12°C, 3°C and -2°C. Cold acclimation induced an increase in the T c values in both species but no survival was observed after thawing. However, after inoculation at high sub-zero temperatures, cold-acclimated N. rhenorhodanensis survived whereas all others, including the 3°C and -2°C acclimated G. fossarum died. In its aquatic environment, N. rhenorhodanensis is likely to encounter inoculative freezing before reaching the T c and IF tolerance appears as a highly adaptive trait in this species. Bound water and glycogen were found to increase in the 3°C and -2°C acclimated N. rhenorhodanensis, whereas no variation was observed in G. fossarum. Considering the hydrophilic properties of glycogen, such a rise may be correlated with the increased bound water measured in cold-acclimated N. rhenorhodanensis, and may be linked to the survival of this species when it was inoculated. The ecological significance of the survival of the aquatic subterranean crustacean to inoculative freezing is paradoxical, as temperature is currently highly buffered in its habitat. However, we assume that past geographical distribution and resulting life history traits of N. rhenorhodanensis are key parameters in the current cold-hardiness of the species.

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“…The strategy of the land snail, Helix aspersa, to cope with low temperature is known to change from freezing avoidance to freezing tolerance as body size increases (Ansart and Vernon, 2004). However, there are only a few reports that have focused on the response of freshwater mollusks to low temperature (Olsson, 1984;Frisbie and Lee, 1997;Ansart and Vernon, 2003).…”

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Physiological response to low temperature in the freshwater apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae)

Matsukura

Tsumuki

Izumi

et al. 2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYCold hardiness of the freshwater apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata, varies seasonally. We investigated lethal factors and physiological changes arising from exposure of P. canaliculata to low temperatures. Snails did not survive freezing. The supercooling point of cold-acclimated (cold tolerant) snails (-6.6±0.8°C) did not differ significantly from that of non-acclimated ones (-7.1±1.5°C) under laboratory conditions. Furthermore, snails died even under more moderately low temperatures approaching 0°C. These results indicate that indirect chilling injury is a factor in the death of P. canaliculata at low temperatures. Regardless of whether the snails were acclimated to low temperatures, all of the dead, and even some of the snails still alive at 0°C, had injured mantles, indicating that the mantle may be the organ most susceptible to the effects of low temperatures. The concentration of glucose in the posterior chamber of the kidney and concentration of glycerol in the digestive gland were significantly higher in cold-acclimated snails than in non-acclimated ones, suggesting carbohydrate metabolic pathways are altered in snails during cold acclimation.

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Coping with Thermal Challenges: Physiological Adaptations to Environmental Temperatures

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Sinclair

Withers

et al. 2012

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Temperature profoundly influences physiological responses in animals, primarily due to the effects on biochemical reaction rates. Since physiological responses are often exemplified by their rate dependency (e.g., rate of blood flow, rate of metabolism, rate of heat production, and rate of ion pumping), the study of temperature adaptations has a long history in comparative and evolutionary physiology. Animals may either defend a fairly constant temperature by recruiting biochemical mechanisms of heat production and utilizing physiological responses geared toward modifying heat loss and heat gain from the environment, or utilize biochemical modifications to allow for physiological adjustments to temperature. Biochemical adaptations to temperature involve alterations in protein structure that compromise the effects of increased temperatures on improving catalytic enzyme function with the detrimental influences of higher temperature on protein stability. Temperature has acted to shape the responses of animal proteins in manners that generally preserve turnover rates at animals' normal, or optimal, body temperatures. Physiological responses to cold and warmth differ depending on whether animals maintain elevated body temperatures (endothermic) or exhibit minimal internal heat production (ectothermic). In both cases, however, these mechanisms involve regulated neural and hormonal over heat flow to the body or heat flow within the body. Examples of biochemical responses to temperature in endotherms involve metabolic uncoupling mechanisms that decrease metabolic efficiency with the outcome of producing heat, whereas ectothermic adaptations to temperature are best exemplified by the numerous mechanisms that allow for the tolerance or avoidance of ice crystal formation at temperatures below 0°C. © 2012 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 2:2151‐2202, 2012.

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Inoculative Freezing and the Problem of Winter Survival for Freshwater Macroinvertebrates

Cited by 39 publications

References 39 publications

Freezing or supercooling: how does an aquatic subterranean crustacean survive exposures at subzero temperatures?

Freezing or supercooling: how does an aquatic subterranean crustacean survive exposures at subzero temperatures?

Physiological response to low temperature in the freshwater apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae)

Coping with Thermal Challenges: Physiological Adaptations to Environmental Temperatures

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