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Intraspecific Variation of Heat Tolerance in a Model Ectotherm: the Role of Oxygen, Cell Size and Body Size

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY(2024)

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Virtually all aspects of the biology of ectotherms are size-and temperature-dependent. Aerobic metabolism is often proposed to explain such relationships, with oxygen limitation setting limits to heat tolerance and constraining growth. However, experimental tests of the role of oxygen in heat tolerance have yielded mixed results, suggesting that oxygen limitation may be important only in certain contexts and on certain time scales but not others.Here, using thermal death time curves, which incorporate the intensity and duration of heat stress, we quantify the ability to survive heat stress in multiple inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster, under normal and low oxygen conditions. The lines were selected to differ markedly in body size and cell size, as these traits have been hypothesised to shape thermal tolerance via their effects on oxygen supply and demand.Low oxygen condition markedly reduced survival time across inbred lines, especially when flies were exposed to prolonged, mild heat stress.Variations in heat tolerance among lines were partly related to cell size and body size differences, especially under chronic exposure to high temperatures, under hypoxia and in flies that exhibit larger cell size, supporting the idea that differences in cell size affect the oxygen supply and demand via differences in surface area to volume ratio.Because differences in heat tolerance were manifested at different timescales, our results underscore the need to close the gap between responses to acute timescales, typically employed in laboratory studies, and chronic timescales, which are ecologically more relevant.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.image
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body mass,cell size,DGRP lines,oxygen limitation,thermal death time curves
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