Assessment of the behaviour and survival of nematodes under low oxygen concentrations

PloS One
Hiromi KitazumeTaisei Kikuchi

Abstract

Oxygen is required for the completion of almost all known metazoan lifecycles, but many metazoans harbour abilities to withstand varying degrees and periods of hypoxia. Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most popular model organism is extensively used as a model for the study of hypoxia and anoxia biology and it has been found that this nematode is capable of tolerance to varying degrees of hypoxia. Considering the extremely high diversity of nematodes, the effects of low oxygen concentration and mechanisms of adaptation to oxygen depletion differ among species. In this study, we used a simple assay to examine anoxia tolerance in four nematode species, including three free-living and one plant parasitic nematode. We found that the plant parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus can survive more than 14 days under anoxic conditions. Comparisons of behaviour during anoxia induction and the repertoire of oxygen sensation genes among the tested species suggested the existence of different oxygen sensation systems between B. xylophilus and C. elegans, which quickly introduce suspended animation in response to oxygen depletion to survive long-term anoxia.

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Jan 8, 2021·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Eugênia Carla KuhnDaiana Silva Ávila

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Randomized Axelerated Maximum Likelihood ( RAxML )
glmmML
MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment
R

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