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Wild bee species are important pollinators in agricultural landscapes. However, population decline was reported over the last decades and is still ongoing. While agricultural intensification is a major driver of the rapid loss of pollinating species, transition zones between arable fields and forest or grassland patches, i.e., agricultural buffer zones, are frequently mentioned as suitable mitigation measures to support wild bee populations and other pollinator species. Despite the reported general positive effect, it remains unclear which amount of buffer zones is needed to ensure a sustainable and permanent impact for enhancing bee diversity and abundance. To address this question at a pollinator community level, we implemented a process-based, spatially explicit simulation model of functional bee diversity dynamics in an agricultural landscape. More specifically, we introduced a variable amount of agricultural buffer zones (ABZs) at the transition of arable to grassland, or arable to forest patches to analyze the impact on bee functional diversity and functional richness. We focused our study on solitary bees in a typical agricultural area in the Northeast of Germany. Our results showed positive effects with at least 25% of virtually implemented agricultural buffer zones. However, higher amounts of ABZs of at least 75% should be considered to ensure a sufficient increase in Shannon diversity and decrease in quasi-extinction risks. These high amounts of ABZs represent effective conservation measures to safeguard the stability of pollination services provided by solitary bee species. As the model structure can be easily adapted to other mobile species in agricultural landscapes, our community approach offers the chance to compare the effectiveness of conservation measures also for other pollinator communities in future.
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is altering the behaviour of nocturnal animals in a manifold of ways. Nocturnal invertebrates are particularly affected, due to their fatal attraction to ALAN. This selective pressure has the potential to reduce the strength of the flight-to-light response in insects, as shown recently in a moth species. Here we investigated light attraction of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae).We compared among animals (three genera) from a highly light polluted (HLP) grassland in the centre of Berlin and animals collected at a low-polluted area in a Dark Sky Reserve (DSR), captured using odour bait. In an arena setting tested at night time, HLP beetles (n = 75 across all genera) showed a reduced attraction towards ALAN. Tested during daytime, HLP beetles were less active in an open field test (measured as latency to start moving), compared to DSR (n = 143). However, we did not observe a reduced attraction towards ALAN within the species most common at both sides, Calathus fuscipes (HLP = 37, DSR = 118 individuals) indicating that not all species may be equally affected by ALAN. Reduced attraction to ALAN in urban beetles may either be a result of phenotypic selection in each generation removing HLP individuals that are attracted to light, or an indication for ongoing evolutionary differentiation among city and rural populations in their light response. Reduced attraction to light sources may directly enhance survival and reproductive success of urban individuals. However, decrease in mobility may negatively influence dispersal, reproduction and foraging success, highlighting the selective pressure that light pollution may have on fitness, by shaping and modifying the behaviour of insects.
The role of the GMP nucleotides of the bis-molybdopterin guanine dinucleotide (bis-MGD) cofactor of the DMSO reductase family has long been a subject of discussion. The recent characterization of the bis-molybdopterin (bis-Mo-MPT) cofactor present in the E. coli YdhV protein, which differs from bis-MGD solely by the absence of the nucleotides, now enables studying the role of the nucleotides of bis-MGD and bis-MPT cofactors in Moco insertion and the activity of molybdoenzymes in direct comparison. Using the well-known E. coli TMAO reductase TorA as a model enzyme for cofactor insertion, we were able to show that the GMP nucleotides of bis-MGD are crucial for the insertion of the bis-MGD cofactor into apo-TorA.
Extreme habitats often harbor specific communities that differ substantially from non-extreme habitats. In many cases, these communities are characterized by archaea, bacteria and protists, whereas the number of species of metazoa and higher plants is relatively low. In extremely acidic habitats, mostly prokaryotes and protists thrive, and only very few metazoa thrive, for example, rotifers. Since many studies have investigated the physiology and ecology of individual species, there is still a gap in research on direct, trophic interactions among extremophiles. To fill this gap, we experimentally studied the trophic interactions between a predatory protist (Actinophrys sol, Heliozoa) and its prey, the rotifers Elosa woralli and Cephalodella sp., the ciliate Urosomoida sp. and the mixotrophic protist Chlamydomonas acidophila (a green phytoflagellate, Chlorophyta). We found substantial predation pressure on all animal prey. High densities of Chlamydomonas acidophila reduced the predation impact on the rotifers by interfering with the feeding behaviour of A. sol. These trophic relations represent a natural case of intraguild predation, with Chlamydomonas acidophila being the common prey and the rotifers/ciliate and A. sol being the intraguild prey and predator, respectively. We further studied this intraguild predation along a resource gradient using Cephalodella sp. as the intraguild prey. The interactions among the three species led to an increase in relative rotifer abundance with increasing resource (Chlamydomonas) densities. By applying a series of laboratory experiments, we revealed the complexity of trophic interactions within a natural extremophilic community.
Dictyostelium cells undergo a semi-closed mitosis, during which the nuclear envelope (NE) persists; however, free diffusion between the cytoplasm and the nucleus takes place. To permit the formation of the mitotic spindle, the nuclear envelope must be permeabilized in order to allow diffusion of tubulin dimers and spindle assembly factors into the nucleus. In Aspergillus, free diffusion of proteins between the cytoplasm and the nucleus is achieved by a partial disassembly of the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) prior to spindle assembly. In order to determine whether this is also the case in Dictyostelium, we analysed components of the NPC by immunofluorescence microscopy and live cell imaging and studied their behaviour during interphase and mitosis. We observed that the NPCs are absent from the contact area of the nucleoli and that some nucleoporins also localize to the centrosome and the spindle poles. In addition, we could show that, during mitosis, the central FG protein NUP62, two inner ring components and Gle1 depart from the NPCs, while all other tested NUPs remained at the NE. This leads to the conclusion that indeed a partial disassembly of the NPCs takes place, which contributes to permeabilisation of the NE during semi-closed mitosis.
Malagasy shrew tenrecs (Microgale) have increasingly been used to study speciation genetics over the last years. A previous study recently uncovered gene flow between the Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec (M. soricoides) and sympatric southern population of the Pale shrew tenrec (M. fotsifotsy). This gene flow has been suggested to be accompanied by complete mitochondrial replacement in M. fotsifotsy. To explore the temporal framework of this replacement, we assembled mitogenomes from publicly available sequencing data of ultra-conserved elements. We were able to assemble complete and partial mitogenomes for 19 specimens from five species of shrew tenrecs, which represents a multifold increase in mitogenomic resources available for all tenrecs. Phylogenetic inferences and sequence simulations support the close relationship between the mitochondrial lineages of M. soricoides and the southern population of M. fotsifotsy. Based on the nuclear divergence of northern and southern populations of M. fotsifotsy and the mitochondrial divergence between the latter and M. soricoides, there was a mean time window for replacement of similar to 350,000 years. This timeframe implies that the effective size of the ancestral M. fotsifotsy southern population was less 70,000.
Uncovering the interplay between nutrient availability and cellulose biosynthesis inhibitor activity
(2022)
All plant cells are surrounded by a dynamic, carbohydrate-rich extracellular matrix known as the cell wall. Nutrient availability affects cell wall composition via uncharacterized regulatory mechanisms, and cellulose deficient mutants develop a hypersensitive root response to growth on high concentrations of nitrate. Since cell walls account for the bulk of plant biomass, it is important to understand how nutrients regulate cell walls. This could provide important knowledge for directing fertilizer treatments and engineering plants with higher nutrient use efficiency. The direct effect of nitrate on cell wall synthesis was investigated through growth assays on varying concentrations of nitrate, measuring cellulose content of roots and shoots, and assessing cellulose synthase activity (CESA) using live cell imaging with spinning disk confocal microscopy. A forward genetic screen was developed to isolate mutants impaired in nutrient-mediated cell wall regulation, revealing that cellulose biosynthesis inhibitor (CBI) activity is modulated by nutrient availability. Various non-CESA mutants were isolated that displayed CBI resistance, with the majority of mutations causing perturbation of mitochondria-localized proteins. To investigate mitochondrial involvement, the CBI mechanism of action was investigated using a reverse genetic screen, a targeted pharmacological screen, and -omics approaches. The results generated suggest that CBI-induced cellulose inhibition is due to off-target effects. This provides the groundwork to investigate uncharacterized processes of CESA regulation and adds valuable knowledge to the understanding of CBI activity, which could be harnessed to develop new and improved herbicides.
Phenotypic plasticity can increase individual fitness when environmental conditions change over time. Inducible defences are a striking example, allowing species to react to fluctuating predation pressure by only expressing their costly defended phenotype under high predation risk. Previous theoretical investigations have focused on how this affects predator–prey dynamics, but the impact on competitive outcomes and broader community dynamics has received less attention. Here we use a small food web model, consisting of two competing plastic autotrophic species exploited by a shared consumer, to study how the speed of inducible defences across three trade-off constellations affects autotroph coexistence, biomasses across trophic levels, and temporal variability. Contrary to the intuitive idea that faster adaptation increases autotroph fitness, we found that higher switching rates reduced individual fitness as it consistently provoked more maladaptive switching towards undefended phenotypes under high predation pressure. This had an unexpected positive impact on the consumer, increasing consumer biomass and lowering total autotroph biomass. Additionally, maladaptive switching strongly reduced autotroph coexistence through an emerging source-sink dynamic between defended and undefended phenotypes. The striking impact of maladaptive switching on species and food web dynamics indicates that this mechanism may be of more critical importance than previously recognized.
Patterns of space use are often subject to large temporal and individual-level variation, due to seasonality in behaviour and environmental conditions as well as age- or sex-specific needs. Especially in temperate regions, seasonality likely influences space use even in non-migratory birds. In waterfowl of the family Anatidae, however, few studies have analyzed space use of the same individuals across the full annual cycle. We used a resident population of Mandarin Ducks (Aix galericulata) in northeast Germany to study their year-round space use in relation to season, sex, and age. We marked 172 birds with colour rings and surveyed relevant water bodies for re-encounters for several years. As space-use patterns we derived home ranges from minimum convex polygons and the number of water bodies used by individual birds. Our analysis revealed that individuals shifted their space use between seasons, in particular extending their home ranges during the non-breeding season. Between years, in contrast, birds tended to show season-specific site fidelity. Sex differences were apparent during both breeding and non-breeding season, males consistently having larger home ranges and using slightly more water bodies. No difference was found between first-year and adult birds. Our study demonstrates that mark-resighting can provide valuable information about space use in species with suitable behaviour and readily accessible habitat. In such cases, it may be a valid alternative to more expensive GPS-tracking or short-term manual radio telemetry, particularly within citizen-science projects.
Throughout their lifetime plants need to adapt to temperature changes. Plants adapt to nonfreezing cold temperatures in a process called cold priming (cold acclimation) and lose the acquired freezing tolerance during warmer temperatures through deacclimation. The alternation of both processes is essential for plants to achieve optimal fitness in response to different temperature conditions. Cold acclimation has been extensively studied, however, little is known about the regulation of deacclimation. This thesis elucidates the process of deacclimation on a physiological and molecular level in Arabidopsis thaliana. Electrolyte leakage measurements during cold acclimation and up to four days of deacclimation enabled the identification of four knockout mutants (hra1, lbd41, mbf1c and jub1) with a slower rate of deacclimation compared to the wild type. A transcriptomic study using RNA-Sequencing in A. thaliana Col-0, jub1 and mbf1c identified the importance of the inhibition of stress responsive and Jasmonate-ZIM-domain genes as well as the regulation of cell wall modifications during deacclimation. Moreover, measurements of alcohol dehydrogenase activity and gene expression changes of hypoxia markers during the first four days of deacclimation evidently showed that a hypoxia response is activated during deacclimation. Epigenetic regulation was observed to be extensively involved during cold acclimation and 24 h of deacclimation in A. thaliana. Further, both deacclimation studies showed that the previous hypothesis that heat stress might play a role in early deacclimation, is not likely. A number of DNA- and histone demethylases as well as histone variants were upregulated during deacclimation suggesting a role in plant memory. Recently, multiple studies have shown that plants are able to retain memory of a previous cold stress even after a week of deacclimation. In this work, transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of Arabidopsis during 24 h of priming (cold acclimation) and triggering (recurring cold stress after deacclimation) revealed a uniquely significant and transient induction of DREB1D, DREB1E and DREB1F transcription factors during triggering contributing to fine-tuning of the second cold stress response. Furthermore, genes encoding Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) and antifreeze proteins and proteins detoxifying reactive oxygen species were higher induced during late triggering (24 h) compared to primed samples, while cell wall remodelers of the class xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase were early responders of triggering. The high induction of cell wall remodelers during deacclimation as well as triggering proposes that these proteins play an essential role in the stabilization of the cells during growth as well as the response to recurring stresses. Collectively this work gives new insights on the regulation of deacclimation and cold stress memory in A. thaliana and opens the door to future targeted studies of essential genes in this process.
Heat stress (HS) is one of the most common abiotic stresses, frequently affecting plant growth and crop production. With its fluctuating nature, HS episodes are frequently interspersed by stress-free intervals. Plants can be primed by HS, allowing them to survive better a recurrent stress episode. A memory of this priming can be maintained during stress-free intervals and this memory is closely correlated with transcriptional memory at several HS-inducible loci. This transcriptional memory is evident from hyper-induction of a locus upon a recurrent HS. ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE 2 (APX2) shows such hyper-induction upon recurring HS, however, the molecular basis of this transcriptional memory is not understood. Previous research showed that the HSinduced transcriptional memory at APX2 can last for up to seven days, and that it is controlled by cis-regulatory elements within the APX2 promoter.
To identify regulators involved in HS transcriptional memory, an unbiased forward genetic screening using EMS mutated seeds of pAPX2::LUC was performed from this screen. Two EMS mutants with affected transcriptional memory of LUC were identified. I confirmed that both two EMS mutants resulted from the gene mutations of HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1 (HAC1). Besides pAPX2::LUC, the HS-induced transcription of other HS memory genes were also affected in hac1 mutants. Moreover, HAC1 may promote HS transcriptional memory by acetylating promoters of HS memory genes.
On the other hand, to identify cis-regulatory elements that are required for transcriptional memory of APX2, I performed promoter analysis of the four conserved HSEs identified within a functional APX2 promoter. I found out that one of the HSEs (HSE1) is necessary for both HS-induced APX2 transcription and transcriptional memory, while another one of HSEs (HSE2) is important for HS-induced APX2 transcriptional memory. I also found out that the HSE1 itself (with 10 bp of flanking sequence) is sufficient to confer HS-induced APX2 transcriptional memory, and HSE1 is also necessary for HSFA2 to bind on APX2 promoter and activate APX2 transcription. The findings will provide important clues for the molecular mechanism of transcriptional memory and will enable engineering of enhanced stress tolerance in crops.
Die aktuelle COVID-19-Pandemie zeigt deutlich, wie sich Infektionskrankheiten weltweit verbreiten können. Neben Viruserkrankungen breiten sich auch multiresistente bakterielle Erreger weltweit aus. Dementsprechend besteht ein hoher Bedarf, durch frühzeitige Erkennung Erkrankte zu finden und Infektionswege zu unterbrechen.
Herkömmliche kulturelle Verfahren benötigen minimalinvasive bzw. invasive Proben und dauern für Screeningmaßnahmen zu lange. Deshalb werden schnelle, nichtinvasive Verfahren benötigt.
Im klassischen Griechenland verließen sich die Ärzte unter anderem auf ihren Geruchssinn, um Infektionen und andere Krankheiten zu differenzieren. Diese charakteristischen Gerüche sind flüchtige organische Substanzen (VOC), die im Rahmen des Metabolismus eines Organismus entstehen. Tiere, die einen besseren Geruchssinn haben, werden trainiert, bestimmte Krankheitserreger am Geruch zu unterscheiden. Allerdings ist der Einsatz von Tieren im klinischen Alltag nicht praktikabel. Es bietet sich an, auf technischem Weg diese VOCs zu analysieren.
Ein technisches Verfahren, diese VOCs zu unterscheiden, ist die Ionenmobilitätsspektrometrie gekoppelt mit einer multikapillaren Gaschromatographiesäule (MCC-IMS). Hier zeigte sich, dass es sich bei dem Verfahren um eine schnelle, sensitive und verlässliche Methode handelt.
Es ist bekannt, dass verschiedene Bakterien aufgrund des Metabolismus unterschiedliche VOCs und damit eigene spezifische Gerüche produzieren. Im ersten Schritt dieser Arbeit konnte gezeigt werden, dass die verschiedenen Bakterien in-vitro nach einer kurzen Inkubationszeitzeit von 90 Minuten anhand der VOCs differenziert werden können. Hier konnte analog zur Diagnose in biochemischen Testreihen eine hierarchische Klassifikation der Bakterien erfolgen.
Im Gegensatz zu Bakterien haben Viren keinen eigenen Stoffwechsel. Ob virusinfizierte Zellen andere VOCs als nicht-infizierte Zellen freisetzen, wurde an Zellkulturen überprüft. Hier konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich die Fingerprints der VOCs in Zellkulturen infizierter Zellen mit Respiratorischen Synzytial-Viren (RSV) von nicht-infizierten Zellen unterscheiden.
Virusinfektionen im intakten Organismus unterscheiden sich von den Zellkulturen dadurch, dass hier neben Veränderungen im Zellstoffwechsel auch durch Abwehrmechanismen VOCs freigesetzt werden können.
Zur Überprüfung, inwiefern sich Infektionen im intakten Organismus ebenfalls anhand VOCs unterscheiden lassen, wurde bei Patienten mit und ohne Nachweis einer Influenza A Infektion als auch bei Patienten mit Verdacht auf SARS-CoV-2 (Schweres-akutes-Atemwegssyndrom-Coronavirus Typ 2) Infektion die Atemluft untersucht. Sowohl Influenza-infizierte als auch SARS-CoV-2 infizierte Patienten konnten untereinander und von nicht-infizierten Patienten mittels MCC-IMS Analyse der Atemluft unterschieden werden.
Zusammenfassend erbringt die MCC-IMS ermutigende Resultate in der schnellen nichtinvasiven Erkennung von Infektionen sowohl in vitro als auch in vivo.
The increasing introduction of non-native plant species may pose a threat to local biodiversity. However, the basis of successful plant invasion is not conclusively understood, especially since these plant species can adapt to the new range within a short period of time despite impoverished genetic diversity of the starting populations. In this context, DNA methylation is considered promising to explain successful adaptation mechanisms in the new habitat. DNA methylation is a heritable variation in gene expression without changing the underlying genetic information. Thus, DNA methylation is considered a so-called epigenetic mechanism, but has been studied in mainly clonally reproducing plant species or genetic model plants. An understanding of this epigenetic mechanism in the context of non-native, predominantly sexually reproducing plant species might help to expand knowledge in biodiversity research on the interaction between plants and their habitats and, based on this, may enable more precise measures in conservation biology.
For my studies, I combined chemical DNA demethylation of field-collected seed material from predominantly sexually reproducing species and rearing offsping under common climatic conditions to examine DNA methylation in an ecological-evolutionary context. The contrast of chemically treated (demethylated) plants, whose variation in DNA methylation was artificially reduced, and untreated control plants of the same species allowed me to study the impact of this mechanism on adaptive trait differentiation and local adaptation. With this experimental background, I conducted three studies examining the effect of DNA methylation in non-native species along a climatic gradient and also between climatically divergent regions.
The first study focused on adaptive trait differentiation in two invasive perennial goldenrod species, Solidago canadensis sensu latu and S. gigantea AITON, along a climate gradient of more than 1000 km in length in Central Europe. I found population differences in flowering timing, plant height, and biomass in the temporally longer-established S. canadensis, but only in the number of regrowing shoots for S. gigantea. While S. canadensis did not show any population structure, I was able to identify three genetic groups along this climatic gradient in S. gigantea. Surprisingly, demethylated plants of both species showed no change in the majority of traits studied. In the subsequent second study, I focused on the longer-established goldenrod species S. canadensis and used molecular analyses to infer spatial epigenetic and genetic population differences in the same specimens from the previous study. I found weak genetic but no epigenetic spatial variation between populations. Additionally, I was able to identify one genetic marker and one epigenetic marker putatively susceptible to selection. However, the results of this study reconfirmed that the epigenetic mechanism of DNA methylation appears to be hardly involved in adaptive processes within the new range in S. canadensis.
Finally, I conducted a third study in which I reciprocally transplanted short-lived plant species between two climatically divergent regions in Germany to investigate local adaptation at the plant family level. For this purpose, I used four plant families (Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Plantaginaceae, Solanaceae) and here I additionally compared between non-native and native plant species. Seeds were transplanted to regions with a distance of more than 600 kilometers and had either a temperate-oceanic or a temperate-continental climate. In this study, some species were found to be maladapted to their own local conditions, both in non-native and native plant species alike. In demethylated individuals of the plant species studied, DNA methylation had inconsistent but species-specific effects on survival and biomass production. The results of this study highlight that DNA methylation did not make a substantial contribution to local adaptation in the non-native as well as native species studied.
In summary, my work showed that DNA methylation plays a negligible role in both adaptive trait variation along climatic gradients and local adaptation in non-native plant species that either exhibit a high degree of genetic variation or rely mainly on sexual reproduction with low clonal propagation. I was able to show that the adaptive success of these non-native plant species can hardly be explained by DNA methylation, but could be a possible consequence of multiple introductions, dispersal corridors and meta-population dynamics. Similarly, my results illustrate that the use of plant species that do not predominantly reproduce clonally and are not model plants is essential to characterize the effect size of epigenetic mechanisms in an ecological-evolutionary context.