| Literature DB >> 35386865 |
Semona Issa1,2, Safa Chaabani1, Alexandros G Asimakopoulos3, Veerle L B Jaspers4, Sigurd Einum1.
Abstract
The neurotransmitter dopamine has been shown to play an important role in modulating behavioral, morphological, and life history responses to food abundance. However, costs of expressing high dopamine levels remain poorly studied and are essential for understanding the evolution of the dopamine system. Negative maternal effects on offspring size from enhanced maternal dopamine levels have previously been documented in Daphnia. Here, we tested whether this translates into fitness costs in terms of lower starvation resistance in offspring. We exposed Daphnia magna mothers to aqueous dopamine (2.3 or 0 mg/L for the control) at two food levels (ad libitum vs. 30% ad libitum) and recorded a range of maternal life history traits. The longevity of their offspring was then quantified in the absence of food. In both control and dopamine treatments, mothers that experienced restricted food ration had lower somatic growth rates and higher age at maturation. Maternal food restriction also resulted in production of larger offspring that had a superior starvation resistance compared to ad libitum groups. However, although dopamine exposed mothers produced smaller offspring than controls at restricted food ration, these smaller offspring survived longer under starvation. Hence, maternal dopamine exposure provided an improved offspring starvation resistance. We discuss the relative importance of proximate and ultimate causes for why D. magna may not evolve toward higher endogenous dopamine levels despite the fitness benefits this appears to have.Entities:
Keywords: fitness; life history; maternal effects; phenotypic plasticity; reaction norms
Year: 2022 PMID: 35386865 PMCID: PMC8975792 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8785
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ecol Evol ISSN: 2045-7758 Impact factor: 2.912
FIGURE 1Schematic diagram of the experimental design. The F0 generation was kept at restricted (R) and high (H) food ration for both control and dopamine treatments (2 x 2 design) from birth until maturity, with six replicate beakers per treatment combination and with each replicate initially containing 10 individuals. Due to the occurrence of males in the F0 generation, total sample sizes, given as N, varied among treatments. Individuals in the F1 generation were kept without food in separate wells and were not exposed to dopamine
Water quality measurements from study on life history responses to food ration and dopamine exposure in Daphnia magna
| Sampling event | Treatment | Dopamine (mg/L) | Conductivity (mS/cm) | Dissolved oxygen (mg/L) | pH |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dopamine | 0.052 | 1.64 | 8.83 | 7.95 |
| 1 | Control | 0 | 1.653 | 8.93 | 8.02 |
| 2 | Dopamine | 0.056 | 1.527 | 8.97 | 7.98 |
| 2 | Control | 0 | 1.541 | 9.02 | 8.01 |
Model comparison of candidate models for testing effects of treatment (control vs. dopamine) and food ration (high vs. restricted) on somatic growth rate, age at maturation, dry mass at maturation, offspring dry mass, and offspring longevity in D. magna. The least complex model within two ΔAICc is given in bold. vI refers to the varIdent function
| Response variable | Model |
| AICc | ∆AICc | wAICc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somatic growth rate | |||||
| Fixed |
| 7 | −870.40 | 0.00 | 0.76 |
| Food + Treatment | 6 | −868.10 | 2.30 | 0.24 | |
| Food | 5 | −850.80 | 19.61 | 0.00 | |
| Treatment | 5 | −811.40 | 59.05 | 0.00 | |
| ~1 | 4 | −810.90 | 59.47 | 0.00 | |
| Random |
| 7 | −837.66 | 0.00 | 0.64 |
| vI (Food: Treatment) + (1|Beaker) | 9 | −836.46 | 1.20 | 0.35 | |
| (1|Beaker) | 6 | −829.30 | 8.36 | 0.01 | |
| vI (Food) + (1|Beaker) | 8 | −827.41 | 8.81 | 0.00 | |
| Age at maturation |
| 3 | 925.51 | 0.00 | 0.69 |
| Food: Treatment | 4 | 927.58 | 2.07 | 0.25 | |
| Food | 2 | 930.52 | 4.99 | 0.06 | |
| Treatment | 2 | 968.65 | 43.14 | 0.00 | |
| ~1 | 1 | 968.89 | 43.37 | 0.00 | |
| Dry mass at maturation | |||||
| Fixed |
| 6 | −1545.60 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| ~1 | 3 | −1533.10 | 12.52 | 0.00 | |
| Treatment | 4 | −1531.20 | 14.42 | 0.00 | |
| Food | 4 | −1531.10 | 14.54 | 0.00 | |
| Food + Treatment | 5 | −1529.20 | 16.46 | 0.00 | |
| Random | vI (Food:Treatment) + (1|Beaker) | 9 | −1501.62 | 0.00 | 0.34 |
| vI (Treatment) + (1|Beaker) | 7 | −1501.13 | 0.49 | 0.27 | |
| vI (Food) + (1|Beaker) | 7 | −1501.08 | 0.54 | 0.26 | |
|
| 6 | −1499.81 | 1.81 | 0.14 | |
| Offspring dry mass | |||||
| Fixed |
| 7 | −3361.70 | 0.00 | 0.63 |
| Food + Treatment | 6 | −3359.54 | 2.16 | 0.21 | |
| Food | 5 | −3358.98 | 2.73 | 0.16 | |
| ~ 1 | 4 | −3349.57 | 12.13 | 0.01 | |
| Treatment | 5 | −3349.31 | 12.39 | 0.01 | |
| Random |
| 7 | −3295.35 | 0.00 | 0.50 |
| vI (Food: Treatment) + (1|Beaker/Maternal) | 9 | −3295.20 | 0.15 | 0.46 | |
| (1 | Beaker/Maternal) | 6 | −3289.77 | 5.58 | 0.03 | |
| vI (Food) + (1 | Beaker/Maternal) | 7 | −3287.78 | 7.57 | 0.01 | |
| Offspring longevity |
| 3 | 1065.75 | 0.00 | 0.60 |
| Food: Treatment | 4 | 1067.83 | 2.08 | 0.21 | |
| Treatment | 2 | 1068.23 | 2.48 | 0.17 | |
| Food | 2 | 1073.39 | 7.64 | 0.01 | |
| ~1 | 1 | 1074.54 | 8.79 | 0.01 | |
FIGURE 2Effect of food ration on F0 and F1 traits in D. magna in the dopamine and control treatments. (a) Somatic growth rate, (b) age at maturation (days), (c) dry mass at maturation (mg), (d) offspring dry mass (mg) and (e) offspring longevity (days). Error bars give 1SE
Parameter estimates from the best models (Table 2) describing the response of life history traits to food ration and dopamine exposure in Daphnia magna
| Response variable | Final model | Parameter | Estimate ± SE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somatic growth rate | Food: Treatment + vI (Treatment) + (1|Beaker) | Intercept | 0.24 ± 0.006 |
| Dopamine treatment | 0.02 ± 0.01 | ||
| High food | 0.09 ± 0.009 | ||
| High food: Dopamine treatment | 0.03 ± 0.01 | ||
| Age at maturation (days) | Food + Treatment + (1|Beaker) | Intercept | 2.38 ± 0.04 |
| Dopamine treatment | −0.12 ± 0.05 | ||
| High food | −0.37 ± 0.05 | ||
| Dry mass at maturation (mg) | Food: Treatment + (1|Beaker) | Intercept | 0.07 ± 0.001 |
| Dopamine treatment | −0.007 ± 0.002 | ||
| High food | −0.006 ± 0.002 | ||
| High food: Dopamine treatment | 0.01 ± 0.003 | ||
| Offspring dry mass (mg) | Food: Treatment + vI (Treatment) + (1|Beaker/Maternal) | Intercept | 0.003 ± 0.0001 |
| Dopamine treatment | −0.0004 ± 0.0001 | ||
| High food | −0.0007 ± 0.0001 | ||
| High food: Dopamine treatment | 0.0004 ± 0.0002 | ||
| Offspring longevity (days) | Food + Treatment + (1|Beaker/Maternal) | Intercept | 1.67 ± 0.04 |
| Dopamine treatment | 0.17 ± 0.05 | ||
| High food | −0.12 ± 0.05 |