@article{MazzaDammhahnEccardetal.2019, author = {Mazza, Valeria and Dammhahn, Melanie and Eccard, Jana and Palme, Rupert and Zaccaroni, Marco and Jacob, Jens}, title = {Coping with style: individual differences in responses to environmental variation}, series = {Behavioral ecology and sociobiology}, volume = {73}, journal = {Behavioral ecology and sociobiology}, number = {10}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {0340-5443}, doi = {10.1007/s00265-019-2760-2}, pages = {11}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Between-individual differences in coping with stress encompass neurophysiological, cognitive and behavioural reactions. The coping style model proposes two alternative response patterns to challenges that integrate these types of reactions. The "proactive strategy" combines a general fight-or-flight response and inflexibility in learning with a relatively low HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) response. The "reactive strategy" includes risk aversion, flexibility in learning and an enhanced HPA response. Although numerous studies have investigated the possible covariance of cognitive, behavioural and physiological responses, findings are still mixed. In the present study, we tested the predictions of the coping style model in an unselected population of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) (N = 70). We measured the voles' boldness, activity, speed and flexibility in learning and faecal corticosterone metabolite levels under three conditions (holding in indoor cages, in outdoor enclosures and during open field test). Individuals were moderately consistent in their HPA response across situations. Proactive voles had significantly lower corticosterone levels than reactive conspecifics in indoor and outdoor conditions. However, we could not find any co-variation between cognitive and behavioural traits and corticosterone levels in the open field test. Our results partially support the original coping style model but suggest a more complex relationship between cognitive, behavioural and endocrine responses than was initially proposed.}, language = {en} } @article{JedrusikBodeStudenckaSmolkaetal.2013, author = {Jedrusik-Bode, Monika and Studencka, Maja and Smolka, Christian and Baumann, Tobias and Schmidt, Henning and Kampf, Jan and Paap, Franziska and Martin, Sophie and Tazi, Jamal and M{\"u}ller, Kristian M. and Kr{\"u}ger, Marcus and Braun, Thomas and Bober, Eva}, title = {The sirtuin SIRT6 regulates stress granule formation in C. elegans and mammals}, series = {Journal of cell science}, volume = {126}, journal = {Journal of cell science}, number = {22}, publisher = {Company of Biologists Limited}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {0021-9533}, doi = {10.1242/jcs.130708}, pages = {5166 -- +}, year = {2013}, abstract = {SIRT6 is a NAD(+)-dependent deacetylase that modulates chromatin structure and safeguards genomic stability. Until now, SIRT6 has been assigned to the nucleus and only nuclear targets of SIRT6 are known. Here, we demonstrate that in response to stress, C. elegans SIR-2.4 and its mammalian orthologue SIRT6 localize to cytoplasmic stress granules, interact with various stress granule components and induce their assembly. Loss of SIRT6 or inhibition of its catalytic activity in mouse embryonic fibroblasts impairs stress granule formation and delays disassembly during recovery, whereas deficiency of SIR-2.4 diminishes maintenance of P granules and decreases survival of C. elegans under stress conditions. Our findings uncover a novel, evolutionary conserved function of SIRT6 in the maintenance of stress granules in response to stress.}, language = {en} }