Comparative proteomics of stenotopic caddisfly Crunoecia irrorata identifies acclimation strategies to warming.

ABSTRACT: Species' ecological preferences are often deduced from habitat characteristics thought to represent more or less optimal conditions for physiological functioning. Evolution has led to stenotopic and eurytopic species, the former having decreased niche breadths and lower tolerances to environmental variability. Species inhabiting freshwater springs are often described as being stenotopic specialists, adapted to the stable thermal conditions found in these habitats. Whether due to past local adaptation these species have evolved or have lost intra-generational adaptive mechanisms to cope with increasing thermal variability has, to our knowledge, never been investigated. By studying how the proteome of a stenotopic species changes as a result of increasing temperatures, we investigate if the

SUBMITTER: Ebner JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6856850 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature