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Title:		Copper Contamination Impairs Herbivore Initiation of Seaweed Inducible Defenses and Decreases Their Effectiveness
Author(s):		Warneke AM; Long JD;
Address:		"Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America"
Journal Title:		PLoS One
Year:		2015
Volume:		20150814
Issue:		8
Page Number:		e0135395 -
DOI:		10.1371/journal.pone.0135395
ISSN/ISBN:		1932-6203 (Electronic) 1932-6203 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Seaweed-herbivore interactions are often mediated by environmental conditions, yet the roles of emerging anthropogenic stressors on these interactions are poorly understood. For example, chemical contaminants have unknown consequences on seaweed inducible resistance and herbivore response to these defenses despite known deleterious effects of contaminants on animal inducible defenses. Here, we investigated the effect of copper contamination on the interactions between a snail herbivore and a brown seaweed that displays inducible resistance to grazing. We examined seaweed inducible resistance and its effectiveness for organisms exposed to copper at two time points, either during induction or after herbivores had already induced seaweed defenses. Under ambient conditions, non-grazed tissues were more palatable than grazed tissues. However, copper additions negated the preference for non-grazed tissues regardless of the timing of copper exposure, suggesting that copper decreased both how herbivores initiated these inducible defenses and their subsequent effectiveness. Copper decreased stimulation of defenses, at least in part, by suppressing snail grazing pressure-the cue that turns inducible defenses on. Copper decreased effectiveness of defenses by preventing snails from preferentially consuming non-grazed seaweed. Thus, contaminants can potentially stress communities by changing seaweed-herbivore interactions mediated via inducible defenses. Given the ubiquity of seaweed inducible resistance and their potential influence on herbivores, we hypothesize that copper contamination may change the impact of these resistant traits on herbivores"
Keywords:		"Animals Copper/*adverse effects *Herbivory Seawater/*chemistry Seaweed/*metabolism Snails/*metabolism Water Pollution, Chemical/*adverse effects;"
Notes:		"MedlineWarneke, Alexandria M Long, Jeremy D eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2015/08/15 PLoS One. 2015 Aug 14; 10(8):e0135395. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135395. eCollection 2015"