Behavioural responses to acute warming precede critical shifts in the cellular and physiological thermal stress responses in a salmonid fish (brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis).

Durhack, Travis C.; Thorstensen, Matt J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7870-3369; Mackey, Theresa E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0093-1887; Aminot, Mélanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0082-1579; Lawrence, Michael J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4801-1580; Audet, Céline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3366-210X; Enders, Eva C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2103-0359 et Jeffries, Ken M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7466-1915 (2025). Behavioural responses to acute warming precede critical shifts in the cellular and physiological thermal stress responses in a salmonid fish (brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis). Journal of Experimental Biology , vol. 228 , nº 3. p. 249964. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.249964.

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Résumé

From a conservation perspective, it is important to identify when sub-lethal temperatures begin to adversely impact an organism. However, it is unclear whether, during acute exposures, sub-lethal cellular thresholds occur at similar temperatures to other physiological or behavioural changes, or at temperatures associated with common physiological endpoints measured in fishes to estimate thermal tolerance. To test this, we estimated temperature preference (15.1±1.1°C, mean±s.d.) using a shuttle box, agitation temperature (22.0±1.4°C), defined as the point where a fish exhibits a behavioural avoidance response, and the upper thermal limit (CT_max, 28.2±0.4°C) for 1 year old brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) acclimated to 10°C. We then acutely exposed a different subset of fish to the mean temperatures associated with the pre-determined physiological endpoints and sampled tissues when they reached the target temperature or after 60 min of recovery at 10°C for transcriptomic analysis. We used qPCR to estimate mRNA transcript levels of genes associated with heat shock proteins, oxidative stress, apoptosis and inducible transcription factors. A major shift in the transcriptome response occurred once the agitation temperature was reached, which may identify a possible link between the cellular stress response and the behavioural avoidance response.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	ectotherm, cellular response, mRNA, brook trout, agitation temperature, CTmax
Centre:	Centre Eau Terre Environnement
Date de dépôt:	07 mars 2025 18:55
Dernière modification:	07 mars 2025 18:55
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/16309

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