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Biology (Basel)

Title:		Trans- and Within-Generational Developmental Plasticity May Benefit the Prey but Not Its Predator during Heat Waves
Author(s):		Walzer A; Nachman G; Spangl B; Stijak M; Tscholl T;
Address:		"University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Crop Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria. Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences, Institute of Statistics, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82/I, 1190 Vienna, Austria"
Journal Title:		Biology (Basel)
Year:		2022
Volume:		20220727
Issue:		8
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.3390/biology11081123
ISSN/ISBN:		2079-7737 (Print) 2079-7737 (Electronic) 2079-7737 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Theoretically, parents can adjust vital offspring traits to the irregular and rapid occurrence of heat waves via developmental plasticity. However, the direction and strength of such trait modifications are often species-specific. Here, we investigated within-generational plasticity (WGP) and trans-generational plasticity (TGP) effects induced by heat waves during the offspring development of the predator Phytoseiulus persimilis and its herbivorous prey, the spider mite Tetranychus urticae, to assess plastic developmental modifications. Single offspring individuals with different parental thermal origin (reared under mild or extreme heat waves) of both species were exposed to mild or extreme heat waves until adulthood, and food consumption, age and size at maturity were recorded. The offspring traits were influenced by within-generational plasticity (WGP), trans-generational plasticity (TGP), non-plastic trans-generational effects (TGE) and/or their interactions. When exposed to extreme heat waves, both species speeded up development (exclusively WGP), consumed more (due to the fact of WGP but also to TGP in prey females and to non-plastic TGE in predator males), and predator females got smaller (non-plastic TGE and WGP), whereas prey males and females were equally sized irrespective of their origin, because TGE, WGP and TGP acted in opposite directions. The body sizes of predator males were insensitive to parental and offspring heat wave conditions. Species comparisons indicated stronger reductions in the developmental time and reduced female predator-prey body size ratios in favor of the prey under extreme heat waves. Further investigations are needed to evaluate, whether trait modifications result in lowered suppression success of the predator on its prey under heat waves or not"
Keywords:		biological control climate change developmental plasticity heat stress intergenerational plasticity phytoseiidae predator prey interactions tetranychidae;
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEWalzer, Andreas Nachman, Gosta Spangl, Bernhard Stijak, Miroslava Tscholl, Thomas eng P32474/FWF Austrian Science Fund/ Switzerland 2022/08/27 Biology (Basel). 2022 Jul 27; 11(8):1123. doi: 10.3390/biology11081123"