Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish
Behavioural flexibility allows ectotherms to exploit the environment to govern their metabolic physiology, including in response to environmental stress. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a widespread environmental toxin that can lethally inhibit metabolism. However, H2S can also alter behaviour and physiol...
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| author | Dimitri A. Skandalis Cheryl D. Dobell Joshua C. Shaw Glenn J. Tattersall |
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| description | Behavioural flexibility allows ectotherms to exploit the environment to govern their metabolic physiology, including in response to environmental stress. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a widespread environmental toxin that can lethally inhibit metabolism. However, H2S can also alter behaviour and physiology, including a hypothesized induction of hibernation-like states characterized by downward shifts of the innate thermal set point (anapyrexia). Support for this hypothesis has proved controversial because it is difficult to isolate active and passive components of thermoregulation, especially in animals with high resting metabolic heat production. Here, we directly test this hypothesis by leveraging the natural behavioural thermoregulatory drive of fish to move between environments of different temperatures in accordance with their current physiological state and thermal preference. We observed a decrease in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) preferred body temperature with exposure to 0.02% H2S, which we interpret as a shift in the thermal set point. Individuals exhibited consistent differences in shuttling behaviour and preferred temperatures, which were reduced by a constant temperature magnitude during H2S exposure. Seeking lower temperatures alleviated H2S-induced metabolic stress, as measured by reduced rates of aquatic surface respiration. Our findings highlight the interactions between individual variation and sublethal impacts of environmental toxins on behaviour. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba723dcf8bfd476c953bff0b2a33aa4a2022-12-21T22:46:53ZengThe Royal SocietyRoyal Society Open Science2054-57032020-11-0171110.1098/rsos.200416200416Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafishDimitri A. SkandalisCheryl D. DobellJoshua C. ShawGlenn J. TattersallBehavioural flexibility allows ectotherms to exploit the environment to govern their metabolic physiology, including in response to environmental stress. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a widespread environmental toxin that can lethally inhibit metabolism. However, H2S can also alter behaviour and physiology, including a hypothesized induction of hibernation-like states characterized by downward shifts of the innate thermal set point (anapyrexia). Support for this hypothesis has proved controversial because it is difficult to isolate active and passive components of thermoregulation, especially in animals with high resting metabolic heat production. Here, we directly test this hypothesis by leveraging the natural behavioural thermoregulatory drive of fish to move between environments of different temperatures in accordance with their current physiological state and thermal preference. We observed a decrease in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) preferred body temperature with exposure to 0.02% H2S, which we interpret as a shift in the thermal set point. Individuals exhibited consistent differences in shuttling behaviour and preferred temperatures, which were reduced by a constant temperature magnitude during H2S exposure. Seeking lower temperatures alleviated H2S-induced metabolic stress, as measured by reduced rates of aquatic surface respiration. Our findings highlight the interactions between individual variation and sublethal impacts of environmental toxins on behaviour.https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.200416thermal preferenceset-pointthermoregulationoxygen sensinghydrogen sulfide |
| spellingShingle | Dimitri A. Skandalis Cheryl D. Dobell Joshua C. Shaw Glenn J. Tattersall Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish Royal Society Open Science thermal preference set-point thermoregulation oxygen sensing hydrogen sulfide |
| title | Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish |
| title_full | Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish |
| title_fullStr | Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish |
| title_short | Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish |
| title_sort | hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish |
| topic | thermal preference set-point thermoregulation oxygen sensing hydrogen sulfide |
| url | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.200416 |
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