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In most mosquito species, reproduction requires mating between the female and the male, followed by the female blood-feeding, completing oogenesis, and laying eggs. Warmer environmental temperature and aging both reduce mosquito fecundity and fertility, and warmer temperature accelerates the aging-dependent decline in reproduction such that reproductive impairment manifests earlier in life. To shed light on how this warming-based acceleration of reproductive senescence occurs, we investigated how temperature (27 °C, 30 °C, and 32 °C) and aging interactively shape female and male reproductive tissue size in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. In blood-fed females, we discovered that warmer temperature accelerates the aging-dependent decrease in the size of the ovaries but not the spermatheca. In males, we discovered that warmer temperature lessens and delays the aging-dependent increase in the size of the male accessory glands but not the testes. Next, we measured the expression of reproductive genes in females and males. In female reproductive tissues, warmer temperature accelerates the aging-dependent decrease in the expression of vitellogenin and the aging-dependent increase in the expression of MISO and HPX15. In male reproductive tissues, warmer temperature accelerates an aging-dependent decrease in the expression of Plugin, TGase3, phLP, and CYP315A1. Altogether, these data shed light on how physical and transcriptional changes underpin the warming-based acceleration of an aging-dependent decline in mosquito fecundity and fertility.
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Climate risks to carbon sequestration in US forests
A repository containing the final output datasets from the analysis and figures in Anderegg and Chegwidden et al., “Climate risks to carbon sequestration in US forests”.
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- PAR ID:
- 10668239
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- Zenodo
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- 1.0
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- forests climate
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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