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Herbivorous dietary selection shown by hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) within mixed woodland habitats
<p>Knowledge of diet and dietary selectivity is vital, especially for the conservation of declining species. Accurately obtaining this information, however, is difficult, especially if the study species feeds on a wide range of food items within heterogeneous and inaccessible environments, such as the tree canopy. Hawfinches ( Coccothraustes coccothraustes ), like many woodland birds, are declining for reasons that are unclear. We investigated the possible role that dietary selection may have in these declines in the UK. Here, we used a combination of high-throughput sequencing of 261 hawfinch faecal samples assessed against tree occurrence data from quadrats sampled in three hawfinch population strongholds in the UK to test for evidence of selective foraging. This revealed that hawfinches show selective feeding and consume certain tree genera disproportionally to availability. Positive selection was shown for beech (<em>Fagus</em>), cherry (<em>Prunus</em>), hornbeam (<em>Carpinus</em>), maples (<em>Acer</em>) and oak (<em>Quercus</em>), while Hawfinch avoided ash (<em>Fraxinus</em>), birch (<em>Betula</em>), chestnut (<em>Castanea</em>), fir (<em>Abies</em>), hazel (<em>Corylus</em>), rowan (<em>Sorbus</em>) and lime (<em>Tilia</em>). This approach provided detailed information on hawfinch dietary choice and may be used to predict the effects of changing food resources on other declining passerine populations in the future.</p>
Herbivorous dietary selection shown by hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) within mixed woodland habitats
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Artificial selection for predatory behavior results in dietary niche differentiation in an omnivorous mammal
<p>The diet of an individual is a result of the availability of dietary items and the individual's foraging skills and preferences. Behavioral differences may thus influence diet variation, but the evolvability of diet choice through behavioral evolution has not been studied. We used experimental evolution combined with a field enclosure experiment to test whether behavioral selection leads to dietary divergence. We analysed the individual dietary niche via stable isotope ratios of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) in the hair of an omnivorous mammal, bank vole, from 4 lines selected for predatory behavior and 4 unselected control lines. Predatory voles had higher hair δ15N values than control voles, supporting our hypothesis that predatory voles would consume a higher trophic level diet (more animal vs. plant foods). This difference was significant in the early but not the late summer season. The δ13C values also indicated a seasonal change in the consumed plant matter and a difference in food sources among selection lines in the early summer. These results imply that environmental factors interact with evolved behavioral tendencies to determine dietary niche heterogeneity. Behavioral selection thus has potential to contribute to the evolution of diet choice and ultimately the species' ecological niche breadth.</p>
Data from: Lipidome modulation by dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation or selective soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibition suppresses rough LPS-accelerated glomerulonephritis in lupus-prone mice
<p>Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-accelerated autoimmune glomerulonephritis (GN) in lupus-prone NZBWF1 mice is a preclinical model that is potentially applicable for investigating lipidome-modulating interventions. LPS can be expressed as one of two chemotypes: smooth LPS (S-LPS) and rough LPS (R-LPS) which is devoid of O-antigen polysaccharide sidechain. Since these chemotypes differentially affect TLR4-mediated immune cell responses, these differences may influence GN induction. Therefore, we initially compared the effects of subchronic i.p. injection for 5 wk with 1) <em>Salmonella</em> S-LPS, 2) <em>Salmonella</em> R-LPS, or 3) saline vehicle (VEH) (Study 1) in female NZBWF1 mice. R-LPS induced robust elevations in blood urea nitrogen, proteinuria, and hematuria that were not evident in VEH- or S-LPS-treated mice. Histopathologic examination of R-LPS-treated mice one week after final injection further revealed more robust hypertrophy, hyperplasia, thickened membranes, lymphocytic accumulation containing B and T cells, and glomerular IgG deposition consistent with GN but not in VEH- or S-LPS-treated groups. R-LPS but not S-LPS induced spleen enlargement with lymphoid hyperplasia as well as modest inflammatory cell recruitment in the liver. We next employed our optimized R-LPS model to discern the impact of two lipidome-modulating interventions, omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) supplementation and soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) inhibition, on GN (Study 2). Specifically, the effects of consuming the omega-3 PUFA docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (10 g/kg diet) and/or the sEH inhibitor TPPU (22.5 mg/kg diet) on R-LPS triggering were compared. Resultant blood fatty acid profiles and epoxy fatty acid concentrations reflected the anticipated DHA- and TPPU-mediated lipidome changes. The relative rank order of R-LPS-induced GN severity among groups fed experimental diets based on proteinuria, hematuria, histopathologic scoring, and glomerular IgG deposition was: VEH/CON < R-LPS/DHA ≈ R-LPS/TPPU <<< R-LPS/ TPPU+DHA ≈ R-LPS/CON. These interventions had modest to negligible effects on R-LPS-induced splenomegaly, plasma antibody responses, liver inflammation, and inflammation-associated kidney gene expression. Collectively, our results show for the first time that absence of O-antigenic polysaccharide in R-LPS is critical to accelerated GN in lupus-prone mice. Furthermore, intervention by lipidome modulation through DHA feeding or sEH inhibition suppressed R-LPS-induced GN; however, these ameliorative effects were greatly diminished upon combining the treatments.</p>
Artificial selection for predatory behavior results in dietary niche differentiation in an omnivorous mammal
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Data from: Lipidome modulation by dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation or selective soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibition suppresses rough LPS-accelerated glomerulonephritis in lupus-prone mice
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Dietary stress increases the total opportunity for sexual selection and modifies selection on condition-dependent traits
<p>Although it is often expected that adverse environmental conditions depress the expression of condition-dependent sexually-selected traits, the full consequences of environmental change for the action of sexual selection, in terms of the opportunity for total sexual selection and patterns of phenotypic selection, are unknown. Here we show that dietary stress in guppies, <em>Poecilia reticulata</em>, reduces the expression of several sexually-selected traits and increases the opportunity for total sexual selection (standardized variance in reproductive success) in males. Furthermore, our results show that dietary stress modulates the relative importance of precopulatory (mating success) and postcopulatory (relative fertilization success) sexual selection, and that the form of multivariate sexual selection (linear vs. nonlinear) depends on dietary regime. Overall, our results are consistent with a pattern of heightened directional selection on condition-dependent sexually-selected traits under environmental stress, and underscore the importance of sexual selection in shaping adaptation in a changing world.</p>
Data from: Contribution of maternal effects to dietary selection in Mediterranean fruit flies.
Individual responses to dietary variation represent a fundamental component of fitness, and nutritional adaptation can occur over just a few generations. Maternal effects can show marked proximate responses to nutrition, but whether they contribute to longer-term dietary adaptation is unclear. Here we tested the hypotheses that maternal effects: (i) contribute to dietary adaptation, (ii) diminish when dietary conditions are constant between generations, (iii) are trait-specific and (iv) interact with high- and low-quality food. We used experimental evolution regimes in the medfly (Ceratitis capitata) to test these predictions by subjecting an outbred laboratory-adapted population to replicated experimental evolution on either constant high calorie sugar ('A') or low-calorie starch ('S') larval diets, with a standard adult diet across both regimes. We measured the contribution of maternal effects by comparing developmental and adult phenotypes of individuals reared on their own diet with those swapped onto the opposite diet for either one or two generations (high and low maternal effect conditions, respectively), both at the start and after 30 generations of selection. Initially, there were strong maternal effects on female body mass and male mating success but not larval survival. Interestingly, the initial maternal effects observed in female body mass and male mating success showed sex-specific interactions when individuals from high calorie regimes were tested on low calorie diets. However, as populations responded to selection, the effects of maternal provisioning on all traits diminished. The results broadly supported the predictions. They show how the contribution of maternal effects to dietary responses evolves in a context-dependent manner, with significant variation across different fitness-related traits. We conclude that maternal effects can evolve during nutritional adaptation and hence may be an important life history trait to measure, rather than to routinely minimise.
Dietary stress increases the total opportunity for sexual selection and modifies selection on condition-dependent traits
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Data from: Dietary stress does not strengthen selection against single deleterious mutations in Drosophila melanogaster
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Prey selection of polar bears in Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada: evidence of dietary flexibility in a specialized predator
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Dietary Gluten-Induced Gut Dysbiosis is Accompanied by Selective Upregulation of microRNAs with Intestinal Tight Junction and Bacteria-Binding Motifs in Rhesus Macaque Model of Celiac Disease
GEO Series GSE89170. Macaca mulatta; Homo sapiens. 9 samples. Type: Expression profiling by RT-PCR.
Effects of the Short-Chain Fatty Acids-Targeted Dietary Interventions on the Selected Autonomic Functions in Humans
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT06851039. IPD Sharing: NO. Countries: 1. Publications: 0.
Dietary supplement vanadyl sulfate selectively eliminates senescent cells
GEO Series GSE243912. Homo sapiens. 8 samples. Type: Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing.
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