temperature tolerance and stress proteins as mechanisms of invasive species success蛋白质耐热性和压力机制的入侵物种的成功.pdfVIP

Temperature Tolerance and Stress Proteins as Mechanisms of Invasive Species Success 1 1,2 Robyn A. Zerebecki , Cascade J. B. Sorte * 1 Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Bodega Marine Laboratory and Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Bodega Bay, California, United States of America Abstract Invasive species are predicted to be more successful than natives as temperatures increase with climate change. However, few studies have examined the physiological mechanisms that theoretically underlie this differential success. Because correlative evidence suggests that invasiveness is related to the width of a species’ latitudinal range, it has been assumed – but largely untested – that range width predicts breadth of habitat temperatures and physiological thermotolerances. In this study, we use empirical data from a marine community as a case study to address the hypotheses that (1) geographic temperature range attributes are related to temperature tolerance, leading to greater eurythermality in invasive species, and (2) stress protein expression is a subcellular mechanism that could contribute to differences in thermotolerance. We examined three native and six invasive species common in the subtidal epibenthic communities of California, USA. We assessed thermotolerance by exposing individuals to temperatures between 14uC and 31uC and determining the temperature lethal to 50% of individuals (LT50) after a 24 hour exposure. We found a strong positive relationship between the LT50 and both maximum habitat temperatures and the breadth of temperatures experience across the species’ ranges. In addition, o