Plasticity of circadian and circatidal rhythms in activity and transcriptomic dynamics in a freshwater snail
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Plasticity of circadian and circatidal rhythms in activity and transcriptomic dynamics in a freshwater snail
Abstract
Organisms have diverse biological clocks synchronised with environmental cycles depending on their habitats. Anticipation of tidal changes has driven the evolution of circatidal rhythms in some marine species. In the freshwater snail, Semisulcospira reiniana, individuals in nontidal areas exhibit circadian rhythms, whereas those in tidal areas exhibit both circadian and circatidal rhythms. We investigated whether the circatidal rhythms are genetically determined or induced by environmental cycles. The exposure to a simulated tidal cycle did not change the intensity of circatidal rhythm in individuals in the nontidal population. However, snails in the tidal population showed different activity rhythms depending on the presence or absence of the exposure. Transcriptome analysis revealed that genes with circatidal oscillation increased due to entrainment to the tidal cycle in both populations and dominant rhythmicity was consistent with the environmental cycle. These results suggest plasticity in the endogenous rhythm in the gene expression in both populations. Note that circatidal oscillating genes were more abundant in the tidal population than in the nontidal population, suggesting that a greater number of genes are associated with circatidal clocks in the tidal population compared to the nontidal population. This increase of circatidal clock-controlled genes in the tidal population could be caused by genetic changes in the biological clock or the experience of tidal cycle in the early life stage. Our findings suggest that the plasticity of biological rhythms may have contributed to the adaptation to the tidal environment in S. reiniana.
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The authors declare no competing interest.
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