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Osmoregulation in the Hawaiian anchialine shrimp Halocaridina rubra (Crustacea: Atyidae): expression of ion transporters, mitochondria-rich cell proliferation and hemolymph osmolality during salinity transfers


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dc.contributorScott Santos, srsantos@buffalo.eduen_US
dc.creatorHavird, Justin C
dc.creatorSantos, Scott R
dc.creatorHenry, Raymond P
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-08T05:15:17Z
dc.date.available2019-08-08T05:15:17Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.identifier10.1242/jeb.103051en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.103051en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11200/49445
dc.description.abstractStudies of euryhaline crustaceans have identified conserved osmoregulatory adaptions allowing hyper-osmoregulation in dilute waters. However, previous studies have mainly examined decapod brachyurans with marine ancestries inhabiting estuaries or tidal creeks on a seasonal basis. Here, we describe osmoregulation in the atyid Halocaridina rubra, an endemic Hawaiian shrimp of freshwater ancestry from the islands' anchialine ecosystem (coastal ponds with subsurface freshwater and seawater connections) that encounters near-continuous spatial and temporal salinity changes. Given this, survival and osmoregulatory responses were examined over a wide salinity range. In the laboratory, H. rubra tolerated salinities of ~0-56‰, acting as both a hyper- and hypo-osmoregulator and maintaining a maximum osmotic gradient of ~868 mOsm kg(-1) H2O in freshwater. Furthermore, hemolymph osmolality was more stable during salinity transfers relative to other crustaceans. Silver nitrate and vital mitochondria-rich cell staining suggest all gills are osmoregulatory, with a large proportion of each individual gill functioning in ion transport (including when H. rubra acts as an osmoconformer in seawater). Additionally, expression of ion transporters and supporting enzymes that typically undergo upregulation during salinity transfer in osmoregulatory gills (i.e. Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase, carbonic anhydrase, Na(+)/K(+)/2Cl(-) cotransporter, V-type H(+)-ATPase and arginine kinase) were generally unaltered in H. rubra during similar transfers. These results suggest H. rubra (and possibly other anchialine species) maintains high, constitutive levels of gene expression and ion transport capability in the gills as a means of potentially coping with the fluctuating salinities that are encountered in anchialine habitats. Thus, anchialine taxa represent an interesting avenue for future physiological research.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherThe Company of Biologistsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Experimental Biologyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries1477-9145en_US
dc.rights© 2014. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectArginine kinaseen_US
dc.subjectCarbonic anhydraseen_US
dc.subjectEuryhalineen_US
dc.subjectGene expressionen_US
dc.subjectGillen_US
dc.subjectIon Transporten_US
dc.subjectOsmoregulationen_US
dc.subjectqPCRen_US
dc.subjectHalocaridina rubraen_US
dc.subjectAnchialine ecosystemen_US
dc.subjectSalinityen_US
dc.subjectSalt/ion transporten_US
dc.subjectV-type H+-ATPaseen_US
dc.titleOsmoregulation in the Hawaiian anchialine shrimp Halocaridina rubra (Crustacea: Atyidae): expression of ion transporters, mitochondria-rich cell proliferation and hemolymph osmolality during salinity transfersen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume217en_US
dc.citation.issue13en_US
dc.citation.spage2309en_US
dc.citation.epage2320en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US

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